Firebird with DBine
How to connect DBine to Firebird and what you can do once it's connected. This page is written from what the Firebird driver says about itself, so it matches the version of DBine you download.
Connect
- In DBine, open New connection.
- Pick Firebird in the list of engines.
- Fill in the fields below, press Test connection and then Save.
Default port: 3050.
General
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Server required | Example: localhost |
| Port | Example: 3050 |
| Database required | Path to the file on the server or an alias from databases.conf. Example: /var/lib/firebird/data/db.fdb |
| User | Default: SYSDBA |
| Password | Kept in the system keychain, never in DBine's files. |
| Read-only | On or off. |
SSH tunnel. The connection can go through an SSH server, even through a chain of bastions, with a password, a private key or the SSH agent. The server's fingerprint is checked against known_hosts or confirmed the first time.
Advanced
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Role | |
| Character set | Options: UTF8, ISO8859_1, ISO8859_2, WIN1250, WIN1251, WIN1252, KOI8R Default: UTF8 |
| Commit automatically (autocommit) | If off, changes wait for an explicit COMMIT. On or off. |
What the explorer shows
The objects appear right under the connection:
- Tables
- Views
- Procedures
- Functions
- Packages
- Triggers
- Sequences
- Domains
Query editor
The editor uses SQL, with completion for the connection's objects. Statements and commands run against the database selected in the tab.
Ready-made templates for new objects:
- New view
- New procedure
- New function
- New package
- New trigger
- New sequence
- New domain
Tools for Firebird
Available
- Graphical execution plans
- Live query profiler
- Server monitor
- Sessions and running queries
- End a session
- Cancel another session's query from the sessions list
- Manual transactions (commit and rollback)
- Index usage
- Create databases
- Drop databases
- Database properties
- Relations in the ER diagram
- Visual designer for new objects
- Rename objects
- Compare and sync schemas
- Native bulk load when migrating data
- Users and permissions
Not available for Firebird
- Locks: who blocks whom
- Clone tables
- Backups
Why a tool doesn't apply to an engine, and the details of each one, are in the engine support reference.
Generated from the Firebird driver 0.1.10, which DBine downloads the first time you connect to Firebird.