Subject Re: [firebird-support] Re: Data Dictionary
Author Bogusław Brandys
Adam wrote:
> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Roberto Freitas"
> <solanofreitas@...> wrote:
>> Not Create/edit/drop tables, but basically have a description of all
>> tables and fields.
>> At this moment, I do it by my own with an independent text file, with
>> no vinculum with FireBird database.
>> It would be great if any change on DB could be imediatelly passed to
>> another word file where all I had to do would be add new tables and
>> fields descriptions ...
>
> I don't understand what you want with word files, but as for the
> metadata extraction (and extraction into SQL scripts), most admin
> tools do this, many of them are free, many of them are paid, some paid
> have free evaluation versions.
>
> http://www.firebirdsql.org/
>
> Scroll down and choose admin tools and start reading. 10 different
> people will give you 10 diffeent suggestions.
>
> Adam
>

Maybe you need descriptions of database objects inside database ?
IBExpert is doing such thing for example but I'm not sure how it works.


Regards
Boguslaw