Hi all,
after something like a decade I would like to revive an old Firebird database that I found on an old drive and need some starters to get me going. *Then* I developed it on Windows XP and mainly edited it using a generic DB management tool of which I forgot the name (it was a commercial product with a free student's license). Now I'm working on LInux exclusively and have a number of questions: 1) I assume on LInux (Debian based Mint version and an Ubuntu flavor) I install a variant of the server (in the repository I find the 2.5 variants, but I'd be also happy installing a downloaded 3.0 instead). Then I need a generic DB manager like e.g. Flamerobin to do general operations and basic DB editing. Or is it equally possible to do that in the terminal? Is that correct? 2) How can I determine the version of my existing database file? And how can I convert that to a current one in the expected case it isn't compatible with my current installation? There is only the .fdb file and no backup available. Could you give me some hints on libraries or other tools to start developing for/with Firebird again? I'd first like to write a usable interface to that existing database and then maybe restart using Firebird as a backend for further applications. I'd be happy to use Python, especially PyQt, and/or Node.js/AngularJS for creating a web frontend. Thank you for any pointers Urs
