Thanks all,

All those suggestions are good. I've used Flamerobin and others before and even 
wrote my own DB tool once. However I've settled for a little relatively cheap 
tool that can so far do what I want. http://www.tmssoftware.com/site/tmsdm.asp

Steve

On 21/01/2012, at 12:32 AM, Jeremy North <[email protected]> wrote:

> Database Workbench by upscene (http://www.upscene.com/) has a free FireBird 
> version.
> 
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:24 PM, John Bird <[email protected]> wrote:
> If what you are looking for is running SQL and DB admin tools, running 
> scripts etc then FlameRobin and EMS SQL Manager both have free (and for EMS 
> paid) versions.  both excellent.  Flamerobin (Sourceforge) lightweight and 
> based on functionality of MS SQL Studio, and EMS even in the Lite free 
> version has lots of features – eg running parameterised queries, extracting 
> DDL, scripts and edits with commit and rollback, running stored procedures 
> etc.   Both can show SQL execution details and index stats.  Flamerobin is 
> cross platform, EMS Windows only I think.
>  
> I am puzzled though, on the Rapid SQL page 
> http://www.embarcadero.com/products/rapid-sql  it definitely says Firebird is 
> supported.  Release date for that though is May 2010.
>  
> Was this one of the free tools you picked with XE2 order?
>  
> If so, what are the opinions which are the best free tools, I don’t really 
> know them and also want to get the best ones (I got XE2 professional)
>  
> John Bird
> From: Jeremy North
> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 11:02 PM
> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> Subject: Re: [DUG] Rapid SQL connecting to Firebird
>  
> I don't believe Rapid SQL supports Firebird.
> 
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Steve Peacocke <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>  
> Has anyone had any success connecting the free Rapid SQL XE2 tool to the 
> example.fdb firebird database?
>  
> I've had a browse on the internet and all I can find is either adds telling 
> us how Rapid SQL connects to Firebird; or forms telling us that no-one has 
> found a way to make Rapid SQL to connect to a Firebird database.
>  
> I though it might be a version thing so I unloaded firebird  2.5 and 
> downloaded and installed Firebird 2.0 - with exactly the same result.
>  
> If someone has connected to the EXAMPLE.FDB database that comes with Firebird 
> can you please tell me what you did?
> 
> Steve Peacocke
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