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FlameRobin version 0.2.0 released

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We are glad to announce the release of FlameRobin 0.2.0 ALPHA. FlameRobin is a database administration tool for Firebird DBMS. It now comes with property sheets and editors for most database objects, brand new background backup & restore features and a MacOS X port. Not to mention the new program logo, new home on sf.net.New features:
- Brand new Backup/Restore dialogs that work in background, let you suppress the output messages and store their settings among invocations. Plus, the output messages can be copied to the clipboard.

- Many dialogs have been redesigned and now feature a cleaner GUI.
- Show value and Show all values context menu commands implemented for generators.
- Exceptions are now shown in the tree view and have Create/Drop menu commands and a property page.
- Property pages for triggers, table constraints, dependencies (all objects), generators were added. Plus, a special empty property page now appears for not yet supported object types, instead of an error message.
- Ability to view/add/drop table constraints.
- Reconnect menu command for databases will physically disconnect and reconnect a database in one shot.

- Create new and Drop commands added for external functions.
- New MacOS X port.
Release notes here, as well as a detailed list of what is new. Download here. Please send us comments, bug reports, feature requests, wishes, etc.

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New release?

No offense, but the 2.0 alpha release linked is dated november 11th, 2004.

Versatility

It is nice to see such programs, but regrettably they tend to be too specific.

With the (snail slow) progress of the ISO SQL standards, it should be possible to make tools that deal with several SQL DBMSs. At least the most compliant ones, like PostgreSQL, FireBird and IBM DB2, and possibly the less compliant but more popular MySQL and Oracle.

While it is nice to have tools, it is a pain to have to learn and launch different ones to do similar tasks in different DBMSs.