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Welcome to Firebird Maestro!

Firebird Maestro is the premier Windows GUI admin tool for Firebird development and management. It allows you to make all the database operations easy and fast.

 

Basic Firebird Maestro features

 

Support of the latest Firebird features

Use Firebird Maestro to work with Firebird from 1.0 up to 4.0. Among other features and objects implemented in the latest versions of the server, our software supports identity columns (Firebird 3.0), decfloat, time with time zone and timestamp with time zone datatypes and extensive system privileges (Firebird 4.0), and a lot of other useful things.

 

Easy database management

Firebird Maestro allows you to work with remote servers with restricted access via SSH tunneling. Firebird Maestro allows you to create new databases and drop existing ones. Database profiles give you the opportunity to connect to databases in one touch and work with the selected databases only. See the Database Management for details.

 

Powerful database object management

Firebird Maestro provides you with an ability to manage database objects in various ways. For example, you can perform operations with a group of objects as well as with a single object in Object Manager, sort, group and filter the database objects within Object Browser, copy an object from one database to another by a drag-and-drop operation inside the explorer tree, use Windows clipboard to copy a set of objects and so on. For details turn to the Database Object Management section.

 

Working with tables and table subobjects

Firebird Maestro wizards and editors allow you to create, edit and drop tables as well as their fields, indexes, and foreign keys in a couple of simple operations. See the Tables section to learn more.

 

Building and executing queries

Firebird Maestro provides two powerful tools which allow you either to edit query text directly with syntax highlighting and code completion or to build a query diagram visually selecting tables and fields, setting links between tables and so on. You can find the detailed description in the Queries section.

 

Powerful data management tools

Firebird Maestro puts at your disposal a complete set of data management tools with viewing, editing, grouping, sorting and filtering abilities, lookup editors, master-detail data view, BLOB Viewer/Editor, data export, data import and SQL dump modules and more.  See the Data Management to learn the details.

 

Wide choice of additional tools

Firebird Maestro provides you with a number of tools for working with database metadata and SQL scripts, including Script Runner, SQL Script Editor with code folding and script explorer. Moreover, it gives such tools as Schema Designer, BLOB Viewer, Diagram Viewer, Data Analysis, Dependency Tracker, SQL Generator, Report Designer, and a lot of others. To learn more, see the Database Tools section.

 

Security management

Firebird Maestro gives you a comfortable access to Firebird security features.

 

Firebird server maintenance

Firebird server maintenance operations such as  backup and restore database, shutdown database and bringing database online are easy and fast to perform in Firebird Maestro. Proceed to the Server Maintenance section for detailed information.

 

Full customization according to your preferences and needs

In Firebird Maestro you can customize the behavior of all its tools, select a user interface scheme and set a lot of other preferences. All the options and their meanings are listed within the Options dialog description.

 

 



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