Way back in May last year I experimented with some IMA tables that showed data types and operators defined in the DBMS. Further poking around and a table for a list of the function instances is available, drop ima_dbms_fis; \p\g register table ima_dbms_fis ( server varchar(64) not null not default is ‘SERVER’, id integer4 not [...]
On some distributions of Linux when running Eclipse and applications derived from Eclipse the buttons on dialogs whilst accepting clicks do not seem to do anything. After some minutes of frustration and even more minutes searching for an answer on Google I found this https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=291257 Any way the temporary solution is to set the environment [...]
Have you ever had to create a development stack on a machine from scratch to develop on or to check out a new technology? You have? Then you must have suffered some of the same frustrations and annoyances of ensuring that the prerequisites and dependencies of each component are satisfied; ending up with downloading some [...]
Those nice people at Atlassian have another starter introductory offer http://www.atlassian.com/starter/. Not being a person to look a gift horse in the mouth, and already using and evaluation of Jira 3.12 with Ingres I decided to put my hand in my pocket. I’ve updated the scripts and the notes to get Jira working with Ingres [...]
A follow on post on setting up the Eclipse Communications Framework (ECF). If like me you have to work and communicate whilst connected to private systems, but from time-to-time need to collaborate with developers who are not privy to those systems then this article http://ecf1.osuosl.org/updateReleasedSiteInstructions.html may help. It describes how to install a plug-in into [...]
Have you ever needed a discussion with a colleague or a mentor whilst you were coding? Tried to in an instant messenger conversation and found switching between your editor and IM client frustrating? There is an project within Eclipse called the Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF) that transforms the Eclipse IDE into a instant collaboration tool [...]
I’ve been poking around the ADF code and came across these IMA objects for data types and operators in the DBMS. These IMA objects, like many others, exist but are never exposed. Data types The following registration will create a table that contains data type name and the data type description bits. drop ima_dbms_datatypes; \p\g [...]
It has been a while since my last post; head down updating the packages on the BI appliance, but that’s another story. Java and JDBC applications seem to be the plat du jour and trying to peel away the layers getting to the JDBC settings and queries being executed in some of the frameworks can [...]
On February 25th the parents of the Ingres Icebreaker ECM Appliance announced its availability; the holistic product of Ingres Icebreaker and Alfresco Document Management Software. Although we immediately started on our next project the team did take a few moments to look up from the keyboard. The release was well received by the press and [...]
I was recently asked about the ability to run a row producing procedure from anything other than ESQLC, which reminded me of a couple of feature requests that I have recently made http://community.ingres.com/wiki/Table_Procedure_Enhancements, named result columns for a row producing procedure and the ability to use a row producing procedure in a view definition. In [...]