Thanks Kjell. My preference is to type SQL in a CLI environment. It's good to know of the free form SQL in FR but it's still not as fast (for me) as doing it in a console / terminal. To "just open a query window" still looks to me like a superfluous step.
But each to their own preference. R~~ Regards R~~ On Wed, 1 Aug 2018, 08:22 Kjell Rilbe kjell.ri...@marknadsinformation.se [firebird-support], <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > > > Den 2018-07-31 kl. 10:44, skrev trueriver river14ap...@gmail.com > [firebird-support]: > > I am used to creating tables and users and even databases by typing > > SQL into a command line client. > > > > Forgive me if I am missing some clue in the documention but there I > > have not found anything about how to do that for firebird 3.0 > > > > FlameRobin composes create table SQL for you and you fill in the gaps, > > but I want to just type it in at a prompt, as in Oracle, Mysql, > > Mariadb and loads of other DBMSs I have used over the years > > > > I can see that FlameRobin is a gentler learning curve for newcomers > > but when you know SQL (and can adapt to the inconsistent way it's > > implemented) it feels so clunky to keep having to swap from mouse to > > keyboard > > ISQL has been mentioned and found, I know. I just wanted to mention that > there's absolutely nothing in FlameRobin that would force you to let > FlameRobin compose SQL for you. You just open an SQL query window and > write your ad hoc SQL there. > > I never use the SQL generation capabilities (except to extract DDL for > existing objects on occasion). I always write my SQL manually, as you > would in ISQL. > > The benefits, as I see it, are the object trees, command history, data > grid, CSV export, log output with stats, syntax highlighting, etc. That > said, I wish they would bring FlameRobin up to fully support Firebird > 3.0 (and fix some other issues). > > Regards, > Kjell Rilbe > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > >
