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Useful or useless? Follow on post …

23-Feb-10

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 [...]

Useful or useless? You decide.

01-May-09

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 [...]

IMA Guru (Pronounced, I’m A Guru) – I definitely am not

08-Jun-06

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.