I’m working with the folks at Jaspersoft building an Ingres BI appliance with Jasperserver 3.0 and decided to try the PHP sample that comes with the distribution. I’m no PHP expert so it helps to be able to call on one who knows their way around (thanks Grant). The environment: Apache/2.2.4 (Linux/SUSE) PHP 5.2.6 with [...]
Pardon my French, but an Ingres Google Summer of Code project, Ingres CAFÉ, demonstrated at LinuxWorld and nominated for the LinuxWorld Product Excellence award was named winner over a number of other innovative projects that included TWiki.net: TWiki OnDemand Enterprise. Ingres CAFÉ is a complete Web application development stack and runtime building upon Ingres 9.2.0, [...]
In a comment to my previous blog, Sarat Pediredla of Hedgehog Lab introduced himself and a product called Fixx and said that it “could potentially support Ingres”. Since that comment I’ve exchanged communication with Sarat and now have Fixx 1.3 working with Ingres 9.2.0. The set-up wasn’t as straight forward as hoped because of the [...]
There is currently discussion within the Ingres engineering group on the processes that should be employed to support community contributions. In parallel, there is a discussion on the tools that can best support the community effort. An issue and bug tracker produce by Atlassian called Jira is very promising but does not offer Ingres support [...]
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 contains some useful [...]
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 take a [...]
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 [...]