Hello,

> It's been a while I've been using Interbase and I just decided to try
> Firebird, I downloaded version 1.5 and installed it and ran it

successfully,

> I am using IB Expert tool as a user friendly interface to Firebird to work
> with my databases. I was wondering if there's any specific tools for
> firebird to do that.

There are plenty. See:
http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_admin_tools

> I also want to ask if it is possible to create in Firebird father
> tables, let's say I have a table called "Persons" with specified fields

and

> triggers and then I want to create a new table called "Professors"
> inheriting from table "Persons" and add new fields to it, and so on for
> tables "students", "employees", etc...

No, Firebird does not support automatic table inheritance.

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL
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