A while back a group of us were asked for innovative ideas for demonstrating Ingres at Ca World 2007. One of mine was to have Ingres ported and run on the Sony Playstation 3. It’s relatively new, fairly exclusive, quite stylish and equipped to dual-boot. Some of the challenges was to persuade some one to [...]
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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 features have [...]
I was discussing with a colleague our recent attendance of trade shows Software 2007, the RedHat Summit and Ca World to name a few. The demonstration of Ingres running on the PS3 seemed to arouse curiosity but you still end up answering similar questions so here are some answers in no particular order: 01. Innovation, [...]
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 straw [...]
There is a certain elegance in simplicity and the Firefox and IE search plug-in for the online Ingres documentation is the epitome. There is a link atop the http://docs.ingres.com page. If you are like me and search the documentation a lot then this will be a real time saver. … Enjoy
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 [...]
Reaching out to our customers, partners and community It is the aniversary of our divestiture from CA (cheer!) and whilst the corporate machine keeps the industry and press informed I know that a few of you like the odd face-to-face meetings at conferences and events. I attended the recent UK Ingres User Association conference in [...]
A colleague was describing a performance issue encountered by a customer that eventually led to increasing the number of Ingres Net processes (often referred to as iigcc or comsvr). During installation, the number of comsvr configured to start defaults to 1 and it seems there it will remain in this age of set-and-forget. The topic [...]
This has been a long running pun within Ingres development. The Ingres Management Architecture (IMA) is an intrinsic part of the processes that compose the Ingres DBMS, yet no one claims responsibility for it.
First post! Introductions. Ingres Several millon lines of code Excellent condition Reliable runner 4 previous owners Full service history As one of the mechanics in Ingres engineering I have meddled with the DBMS engine but it may be safer if I focus on the bodywork Thanks to the site’s blog owner for giving me a [...]