WOW! What a week.
I was lucky enough to participate in the Ingres Engineering Summit 2008 and I don’t think that a short blog could really do it justice. Ingres Engineering is distributed around the globe and this was an ideal opportunity to meet up and catch up. The summit was held in the […]
This year Ingres is participating organization in GSoC, an event sponsored by Google that encourages students, of all levels, to get involved with Open Source. A summary of some proposed projects can be found here and here, any interested candidates need to get their skates on as the deadline for application is March 31, register […]
It has been a very busy few months and the appliance team moves apace and is continuously subjected to requests for new applications and Ingres releases.
With the latest release of Ingres one of the new features is cached dynamic query plans; that will benefit any application that uses prepared dynamic queries.
Ingres has long had the […]
I’ve been clearing out some old files and found an example of ingstatus for Windows. Ingstatus is a utility that is available on Linux and UNIX. This example uses the functions available in the little known library iilibutil.dll. I’ve put it on the community site on the ingstatus page.
The iilibutil library […]
It now seems a very long time ago, but last November I took part in a team meeting where we discussed how to evangelize Ingres within our own sphere of influence. Projects similar to the Playstation 3 port and the Eclipse DTP were mentioned as innovative. During the meeting I was asked to […]
Ingres is starting a project modeled on the Linux Kernel Janitors Project called (for now) the Ingres Janitors Project. Early indications are that the existing news group comp.databases.ingres and the mailing list info-ingres are going to be used as the vehicle for communications.
Any one who is interested in participating or contributing should visit the links […]
One of the new features included in release 2 of Ingres 2006 was the addition of ISO SQL date (also known as ANSI date), time and interval types to the Ingres date type.
The Ingres date is composed of both a date and a time component which differs from the discrete date and time of the […]
A warm front from the west…
This week heralds the start of the prioritization of development projects for the next 12 to 18 months. Representatives of various groups are gathering in the HQ offices to discuss these projects. There are hundreds of requests for projects covering a wide variety of areas. Requests and […]
Nine Months later and another conference gathering. With only a one day conference it was a challenge to fit so much content into so little time and Roy Hann did a tremendous job of scheduling the five streams.
The event was again sponsored by Ingres and attendance cost was free (as in beer). The […]
Last week Ingres Engineering joined the blogosphere when Emma McGrattan, Senior Vice President of Engineering, started her blog “The view from 25B” with the post “Innovation at Work and at Play”.
Many of you in the existing Ingres community will already know Emma as a long time proponent for Ingres technology who candidly expresses her opinion.
This […]