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 [...]
Another successful and worthwhile conference hosted by the UK Ingres User Association wrapped up Tuesday evening following a day cram packed with keynotes speeches and presentations. Most notably, this year’s keynote speakers were Roger Burqhart, Phillip Andrew from RedHat and Dr. Ian Howells from Alfresco each with a similar message; Open source is a key [...]
Following the popularity and attendance at last year’s code sprint a repeat of the event was held on the two days prior to the UK IUA. The objective of the event was to introduce, and in some cases re-introduce, the sprinters to the Ingres source code and build environment; either a pre-configured VMWare virtual machine [...]
As alluded to in a previous post I have been working with the Appliance development team on the Ingres Icebreaker BI appliance with Jasperserver 3.1 announced GA today. The work to keep up with the Jaspersoft release cycle is in progress and early functionality tests a re looking good. I’ve kept some brief notes on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]