While I am not one to spit at the idea of a good GUI tool (The world
needs a whole lot more), most experienced DB admins are quite
comfortable at the command line, and tend to make scripts for tedious
and redundant tasks.

I would guess that the NEED for a GUI tool is for those new to
databases, or for those that don't deal with them regularly.

Maybe either a wrapper around the command line tools, or fat binaries
that are both console and command line aware, would be appropriate.

Jason


Milan Babuskov wrote:

> nxciro wrote:
>
>>I think I am not alone in missing a good
>>Firebird admin utility with a GUI under Linux.
>
>
> You are not alone.
>
>
>>I find myself booting into windows to use Ibexpert,Ib_sql etc.
>>Under Linux there are only a few half baked GUI utilities
>>requiring a php installation ,which is still awkward at
>>best under x86_64 Linux as interbase.so is more or less
>>not compileable under php5 on either our AMD opteron
>>nor on our AMD 64 FX-55 systems (see firebird php list ).
>>Isql, while it works fine is not what you want to use
>>for larger projects.
>>
>>I think Firebird 2.0 should not be shipped without
>>a top notch GUI admin utility for both windows
>>and posix platforms.
>>
>>Probably some of the worlds best c,c++ programmers are
>>working on the project. It should be possible to whip
>>something up. This would also put a much needed face
>>onto Firebird and help to enhance the media
>>coverage of the product.
>
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