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Maven driver repository updated

Following on from my earlier post, a new JDBC driver has been published to our external Maven repository by Alan Raison. In the next 24 hours the updated driver will be propagated to the central Maven repostory. For more information about obtaining the Ingres JDBC driver using Maven see Alan’s original post.

New Ingres Ruby driver and Rails adapter posted

It’s been a quiet few months here on the blog, however it’s been any but quiet in the office. Since my last update I’ve been busy updating the Ingres Ruby driver and Ruby on Rails adapter to support multiple connections as well as Rails/ActiveRecord 2.3.x (2.3.5 was released this week). For a complete run down [...]

Using Ingres with Grails via a Hibernate DAO

The following is a (rough) translation of a post by Fátima Casaú Pérez I picked up via twitter. To see the original post go to http://blogs.salenda.es/fatima_casau/2009/09/30/inyectar-un-datasource-ingres-en-grails/:
Recently I found the need to use a DAO data source based on an external library in my application. In fact a different data source from my application against which [...]

Ingres PHP support for HP OpenVMS CSWS 2.0

For those of you who are interested in running PHP on OpenVMS with Ingres, I have published a pre-built binary to
http://esd.ingres.com/product/drivers/PHP/HP_OpenVMS_Alpha/PHP_Driver. Installation instructions are available via http://bit.ly/InstallPHPIngresOpenVMS or in the README.VMS file contained within the download. The supplied PHP_INGRES.EXE has been built against Ingres 9.2.0 (axm.vms/143). If you want this extension for a different version [...]

Ingres JDBC Driver available through Maven

I am pleased to announce that the Ingres JDBC driver is now available via the central Maven repository.
For those who don’t know, Maven is a dependency management and project lifecycle tool for Java projects. The hosting of the Ingres JDBC driver in the central repository raises the profile of the Ingres Database and should [...]

PHP Ingres 2.2.1 released

The last release of the PHP driver introduced a regression where by the “EXECUTE PROCEDURE” or “CALL” SQL statements would fail to execute (PECL bug 16688). The bug slipped through the net due to missing tests for database procedures. This oversight has now been resolved and the fix has been rolled into a new release, [...]

PHP 5.3.0 released

Just a quick note to say that PHP 5.3.0 has been released. DLLs for PHP 5.3.0 and Ingres are in the process of being built and should be up on http://esd.ingres.com within the next 24 hours.

PHP Ingres 2.1.0 released

Another month … (this is getting to be a habit):
This update is implements several bits of new functionality as can seen from the CHANGELOG

Add ingres.fetch_buffer_size to configure to the number of rows ingres_query() will fetch.
Add ingres_charset() to fetch the installation II_CHARSETxx value
Add ingres.describe ini setting to allow disabling of DESCRIBE INPUT if desired
Add support for [...]

PHP driver 2.0.2 released

Another month, another release.
2.0.2 is minor release fixing a couple of memory leaks and a SEGV. For your enjoyment, here is the complete CHANGELOG:
- Fix corrupt Ingres MONEY to PHP DOUBLE conversions
- Eliminate memory leak when ingres_free_result() is not called
- Fix ingres_field_name() so it returns the correct column name
- Fix SEGV in php_ii_convert_data() when [...]

More Christmas presents…. PHP driver 2.0.1 released

Along with the release of Christmas edition of the Ingres database workbench a new version of the Ingres PHP driver has been posted.
2.0.1 is major/minor release in as much as it is just a bunch of bug fixes but includes some important changes. From the CHANGELOG here are what I believe are the two most [...]