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In InterBase/Firebird Development Studio, you get the following
power-packed features:
Database Designer—a new paradigm in database
development.
ER diagrams can make the early stages of database development a breeze.
Database Designer offers ER diagramming features—and much, much more.
Database Designer encompasses complete database development, covering
table structures along with stored procedures and triggers. Your Database
Designer project contains a repository for your database objects,
including the ER diagram as an object type. Your team of developers can
work efficiently and seamlessly in the InterBase/Firebird Development
Studio:
- The version control system keeps everyone’s code synchronized.
- Refactoring allows you to change the project structure to
accommodate new features, requirements, or external systems.
- SQL syntax parser minimizes errors.
- Project validation warns you about potential problems with your SQL
code.
- Import your existing database to the Database Designer and continue
development.
- Update the structure of the production database directly from
Database Designer, which works in the same manner as the Database
Comparer.
- Access HTML documentation about your project.
More about Database Designer...
Intelligent Code Completion.
Code Completion is a "must have" feature for the mordern programming
environment. And of course it is supported in IB/FB Development Studio. It
works as smart as possible - it does not show just a list
of reserved words and database object names. Instead it checks the syntax
of the statement you writing and shows the list of words that fits the
syntax requirements.
Here is an example of how Code Completion works:
Refactoring — uniquely available to SQL
programmers.
You can change your project structure to accommodate new features,
requirements, or external systems. Unfortunately, many simultaneous
changes in an InterBase/Firebird database can force you to delete and
recreate a large portion of your database. For example, if you want to
rename a stored procedure used in dozens of other procedures and triggers,
you cannot easily pass dependencies between objects. A simple rename can
take a whole day of your development time. Adding one more parameter to
the stored procedure used in half of the rest procedures can chew up even
more of your valuable time. InterBase/Firebird Development Studio solves
these problems—through an approach called Refactoring, available now, for
the first time, to SQL coders. Refactoring is well-known in Java, C++ and
Pascal. Only InterBase/Firebird Development Studio makes this powerful
approach available to SQL programmers. Database Editor and Database
Designer provide this powerful feature on the menu. You can perform the
following actions:
- Highlight a specific name in the editor text. This is useful when
you want to find all occurrences of a specified table, table field, or
variable in long, complex code.
- Rename all occurrences of the selected object. Note that this
feature is not like simple text renaming; this feature uses a syntax
parser to find the next occurrence of the same object.
- Find references to the selected object in the whole database.
- Rename references. This feature performs like a Find References
tool. The feature provides a button that alters all dependent objects to
reference the new object name and generates SQL script for changing a
database.
- Add or remove a parameter. This feature automatically changes the
procedure call in all dependent objects after you add or remove a
parameter in the stored procedure.
- Extract procedures. This feature is similar to the extract method
tools found in common programming languages. This feature allows you to
extract part of the procedure code for a new procedure and replace the
code for the call with this new procedure.
Dynamic syntax and errors highlighting — making
your development efforts a breeze
For the first time, you can get this feature in a dynamic database
development solution. SQL code highlights in different colors dynamically
as you edit. See all errors immediately—powered by our full-featured SQL
syntax parser. No more typing errors! Now, you can even check your code
for logic errors, as in the following example:
The code has two fields in the SELECT statement and only one variable
specified for the output. The parser generates the following message:
Invalid number of parameters (1), should be 2.
When you
type a field or variable name that does not exist, the error highlights,
as in the following example:
The location variable is not defined, so it appears in red, as do the
table fields. Customize your color settings. Each type of object can have
a different color: table names, fields, variables, and reserved words. See
details in Options > Code Editor.
SQL Debugger — making your code error free in a
snap
You can now debug your stored procedures and triggers quickly and
easily. SQL Debugger has a complete set of tools: step over and trace
into, breakpoints, conditional breakpoints, and a watch list. And SQL
Debugger also offers features specifically for SQL: Result Data, Statement
Plan, and statement execution statistics.
Database Comparer — updating your production
database in minutes
Want to update your production database with a new metadata structure
in minutes? With InterBase/Firebird Development Studio, you can drop a
grueling, manual process required in most database development
environments. Database Comparer is your ideal solution. Deploy a new
database structure in minutes—select your development database, choose a
production database, and click Compare. The resulting script contains all
statements required to update your production database. You can review the
script and execute it quickly.
Note: Back up your production
database before running any scripts that are generated automatically.
Select, Update, Insert and Delete Procedures —
effectively designing your database
One of the most effective ways to design a database is to access data
through stored procedures. IB/FB Development Studio allows you to
automatically create stored procedures based on your table structure. Just
click the appropriate menu command on the table context menu in Database
Designer or Database Editor.
Database Statistics Analyzer — pinpointing hidden
performance problems.
Now, you can save your valuable time by streamlining the presentation
of your database statistics to pinpoint database performance problems. Bad
indices can decrease your database performance. InterBase/Firebird makes
these problems difficult to find by presenting database statistics that
are difficult to read. However, now you can easily read your database
statistics with the Statistics Analyzer in the Administrative Console
tool.
Regular database maintenance — scheduling
regular tasks with ease
InterBase/Firebird servers require almost no administration. However
you need to regularly back up your deployed database, check for
consistency, and other tasks. IB/FB Development Studio makes regular
maintenance of your database a breeze. You can schedule backup and restore
with a myriad of options like Check Restore. Check Restore places your
database in a temporary file to determine whether your database can be
restored. You can also schedule your stored procedures and SQL scripts to
run on a specified day and time. The maintenance service is installed by
default and can be managed by the Maintenance Service Manager tool.
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