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1- IBEasy+:
design
and development: Marc
Grange
IBEasy+ can be used by beginners as well as by specialists.
It allows the easy design and use of relational databases. This
software contains:
- An integrated help module for database
design which deals with all the stages necessary to build an
"optimal" database
- Analysing of the documents.
- Building of the data dictionary with help (semantic
analysis) to determine the category of semantic attachment for
each field of the document.
- Relationships between categories.
- Creation of the diagram of data and generation of the
associated tables.
- A visual database designer module allowing to:
-Visualize and update the diagram of an existing database.
You can see the structure of the various tables and the referential
integrity constraints linking them.
-Visually create a database: insert tables and referential
integrity constraints.
- An easy, and user friendly, access to
Interbase/FireBird main functionalities, both in user mode and
in administrator mode, whith a set of specialized tools:
-Specialized editors for: Tables, Views, Domains, Stored Procedures,
Triggers, Indexes, Triggers, UDFs, Generators, Exceptions.
-SQL: Interactive mode (Expert) with history, visual mode (QBE:
Query By Example),
-Backup, restore, shut down, and restart functionalities
-Grant manager
-Interbase/Firebird messages localization
-Export to Word, RTF, TXT, Excel, CSV, SYLK, DIF, HTML, MS Access,
SQL, XML, with Blobs support for SQL and XML.
-Export of Interbase/Firebird databases to MS Access: tables,
records, referential integrity constraints
-Import of MS Access databases: tables, records, referential
integrity constraints
-Export/Import of FireBird databases to SQL with Blobs support
-Import of Excel files into Firebird tables with Blobs support
-Import of XML files into Firebird tables with Blobs support.
-Expression generator and parser for calculated fields in QBE
queries
-Form model designer to enter data in record mode
-Management of auto-incremented fields and default values
-Management of the database diagrams including save of diagrams
to gif and jpeg files
-Blobs viewers and editors. Specialized editors for text (including
RTF files), image sound and video Blobs. Hexadecimal editor
for other types of Blobs.
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- A multilingual interface (French, English,
Spanish, Portuguese Brazil, Dutch, German, Polish, Italian,
Hungarian, Romanian) and documentation available, "on a
click", in French and English.
This version adds the following functionalities:
-A Romanian interface
-Save of database diagrams to gif file
-Management of Firebird Embedded
-Management of Blobs in Excel import
-Blobs viewer and editor for formated text (RTF)
Main enhancements and new functionalities of version 1.5:
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This version adds a full management of
database diagrams. The various files containing database
diagrams are now stored in a project which allows to add,
remove or actualize the different diagrams. This structure
ensure, among others, that a database update (when you
add, delete or modify tables or links) will be reflected
in all the diagrams files.
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Creating graphical images.
The creation of static images, Jpeg or Bmp files, is now
available on every IBEasy+ programs managing graphical
database representations: condensed diagram, extended
diagram, visual database designer, QBE queries...
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Management of Firebird objects names.
The systematic use of quotations marks, in IBEasy+, to
enclosed Firebird objects names can now be disabled.
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2- Interbase/FireBird
IBEasy+ uses Interbase/Firebird as SQL server. It
is thus essential to install, as a preliminary, the Open Source
version of interbase/FireBird to be able to use IBEasy+.
For more accurate information on Firebird see the official
site.
Download FireBird version 2.0 (Classic and
SuperServer for Windows - 4.1 Mb).
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