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 [...]
This year’s conference was preceded by an experimental three day development code sprint. Read about the sprint, A Sprint to the Finish. On the day of the conference the first half plenary speakers were Roy Hann, Simon Catlin, Emma McGrattan and Joe Kronk. Roy focused on two topics, conference organization and community communications. There are [...]
Has it really been 8 weeks since I last visited this page? Since my return from the engineering summit it feels like I’ve been swimming against the tide working frantically with my colleagues to make ready the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) appliance (shameless plug: powered by Ingres, rPath and Alfresco) for the Early Adopter Programme [...]
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 Punta [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ingres announces the launch of its Business Intelligence (BI) Appliance built around JasperSoft‘s BI suite and Icebreaker itself an integration of rPath Linux and Ingres Database Management Server. The BI Appliance eliminates barrier entry costs, simplifies deployment and reduces the total cost of ownership. The Ingres Icebreaker BI Appliance is available to download for 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 [...]