(Picked up from the forums). Ingres are broadcasting live webinars for Ingres VectorWise, starting this week. The first is entitled ‘Welcome to Ingres VectorWise” Join our Ingres System Engineers as they share a high-level overview of the Ingres VectorWise technology including a demonstration of the product. Find out more about this new feature and to [...]
Thanks to Andrew Ross and FOSSLC, the Ingres VectorWise demo from this year’s UK IUA conference can be seen below or via Vimeo.com (Flash is required).
Yesterday I pushed out an update to the PHP driver for Ingres into the PHP Extension Community Library (PECL). Whilst it’s been labelled as a minor update there have been 15 fixes/additions to the driver: – Update the unit tests to be more independent – Add support for the Ingres BOOLEAN type – Add ingres_fetch_assoc() [...]
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Ingres’s OpenAPI C interface can be challenging at times especially when it comes to debugging or reading an API trace. For example, right now I’m trying to debug a problem in the PHP driver for Ingres. For some reason during the tear-down of the request the driver is unable to close a statement. Turning to [...]
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Introduction Getting web applications to connect to Ingres via Apache on UNIX/Linux can be quite fiddly. Here is a simple guide on the setup steps needed to allow the Ingres PHP, Python and Ruby drivers to work with Apache on RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS and Fedora Linux. I’ve also published articles on doing the same [...]
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Yesterday Ray Fan published an article that shows IMA queries that allow you to see the list of functions available for different Ingres releases. I’ve now taken these queries an generated a list of functions for Ingres 9.2.0 with the added functions for 9.3.0 and 10.0.0 (a recentish build). I’ve not looked at earlier releases [...]
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
The following is SQL code was published in the #ingres IRC channel on freenode in response to a question about the best method to determine which iietab_xx_yy table belongs to which table: select r1.relid as base_table, c.attname as column_name, r2.relid as extend_table from iirelation r1,iirelation r2,iiattribute c,iiextended_relation e where r1.reltid=e.etab_base and r2.reltid=e.etab_extension and r1.reltid=c.attrelid and [...]
Later this week Roger Whitcomb will be hosting two webcasts exposing Ingres’ strategy for developing an administration tool for Ingres. The webcasts are scheduled for 7am and 4pm Pacific Standard Time on Thursday 11th Feburary. For information on joining the webcasts see the post in the Community Forums.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
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.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
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 [...]
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