Description

IBExpert Developer Studio is the most comprehensive GUI tool for Firebird and InterBase® on the market today. It includes the following components: IBExpert IDE, IBEScript.exe, and IBExpertDemoDB.

You develop SQL databases professionally and need an efficient and powerful tool? With IBExpert you have made the right choice. It enables you in just a short space of time to become acquainted with, and achieve a command of the open source database, Firebird, as well as its commercial relative, InterBase®. There are powerful and yet easy-to-learn editors for all essential functions.

Whether you enjoy the control of hand-coding DML or DDL statements or working in a visual editing environment, IBExpert makes it easy to get started and provides you with vital tools to speed and enhance your work.

IBExpert includes many coding tools and features: visual editors for all database objects, an SQL Editor and Script Executive, a Debugger for stored procedures and triggers, a Query Builder, a powerful Database Designer and even its own scripting language, IBEBlock. A list of further IBExpert features can be found here.

IBExpert is the most comprehensive GUI tool for Firebird and InterBase® on the market today.

IBExpert Developer Studio includes the following components:

IBExpert IDE
Server Tools
IBExpertDemoDB

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IBExpert 2025.06.09

1. Initial support for Firebird 6 implemented

2. Blob editor

Improvement: Two or more blob editors can now be opened at the same time.
To start a second, third etc. blob editor use the "New blob editor" button in an already opened blob editor.

3. SQL Editor

Improvement (Firebird 6): EXPLAIN
- Prepares and gets its plan in the usual way.
- Executes "select * from rdb$sql.explain()" and shows results in the data grid.

4. DB Explorer

Bugfix: Missing colorization of incremental search results if the database connection charset is UTF8.

5. IBEBlock

Bugfix: ibec_CompareMetadata ignored stored functions and packages if Firebird 4.0 or Firebird 5.0 is specified as the server version.
Improvement: FOR loop now supports DOWNTO and BY clauses similar to Firebird 6 syntax.

6. Minor bugfixes and small improvements

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