> Yeah..... REAL great GUI we have here. Please tell me that I am missing
> something here. I have Interbase 5.5.0.742 and the ServerManager is paltry
> in terms of GUI config options.
this is mostly 'cos there ARE NO OPTIONS IN INTERBASE! There is nothing
to tune, nothing to mess with etc. You install it. You start it (if its
not already). You leave it the hell alone. Unlike MSSQL and Oracle where
you need a DBA to tweek it every 5 mins.
Sorry if I sound a little agitated, but EVERY time someone looks at IB
from a MSSQL background, they get hung up on this! MSSQL has a pretty
interface over an old and shockingly bad database engine. IB has almost
no gui over a very good one. Think about which bit you want.
Look at something else which is similar. Linux vrs NT.
NT: pretty face. Runs for about a week. Users love it 'cos of the gui.
Linux: charactor mode (Xwindows doesn't count IMO). Runs for ever,
pretty much (months and years, not weeks and days). Users dont like it
'cos they have to type, not click on pretty pictures.
Which would you rather have running your business?
See my point?
> Compare this to SQL 7 where you can see all
> the objects in the database (Tables, Views, Stored Procedures etc. etc.) and
> you can set all the security permissions etc. via the GUI. Unless I am
> missing a tool here the Admin GUI is non-existent.....
yup, it is lacking in that area - 6.0 goes some of the way to fixing
that, tho not as far as you want. Seen the SQL Explorer? Looked at some
of the 3rd party stuff (InterbaseDesktop etc)? I used them for a while,
then didn't bother, 'cos I never really needed them - mostly 'cos I
never needed to change anything beyond what I did when I set the
database up.
N
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