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Re: Data Access Message Protocol – Wireshark dissector

Dejan Lekic — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:50:37 -0000

I actually stumbled upon idamp-dissector-plut-in last month when I started the work on my DAMP implementation using the D programming language ( http://d-p-l.org ) . Hopefully soon developers will be able to connect to an Ingres server straight from their D applications! :)

Re: Useful or useless? Follow on post …

jmbp — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:58:31 -0000

I haven't tried this and already know that it will be VERY handy.
Think of it as help for terminal monitor (returns a list of tables or other info. Come on, you remember tm: its the thing we used to use before Eclipse DTP and the Ingres Database Workbench came along.)
With apologies to the non-Java community, may I strongly suggest that it be built into the DTP in the DSE (there's almost a place holder for it.) Anyhow I'll be having a go with this at the earliest opportunity.

Re: Useful or useless? Follow on post …

grantc — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:52:04 -0000

I got the error with both sets of queries - I'll take a look tomorrow.

Re: Useful or useless? Follow on post …

notnull — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:45:46 -0000

I just registered the tables from the previous post for ima_dbms_operators and ima_dbms_datatypes, registered the ima_dbms_fis table and just updated the query to update a.op to a.opid, but I didn't get E_QE0400 error. I've used Ingres Linux Version II 9.2.0 (int.lnx/142)NPTL.

Re: Useful or useless? Follow on post …

grantc — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:11:49 -0000

I seem to be getting:

E_QE0400 An error was returned from a Gateway.
Check the error log (errlog.log) for more information
concerning the specific problem,
(Tue Feb 23 15:10:39 2010)

With 9.2/143 on int.lnx

Re: Useful or useless? Follow on post …

notnull — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:21:27 -0000

Have you tried it? Found some intriguing internal functions.

Re: Useful or useless? Follow on post …

grantc — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:51:30 -0000

Useful stuff - more please :)

Re: Button clicks do nothing in Ingres Database Workbench, Eclipse and its derivatives

notnull — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:22:28 -0000

Great design, great taste, great minds, now, if only I had your penchant for writing.

Re: Button clicks do nothing in Ingres Database Workbench, Eclipse and its derivatives

Andy C — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:34:18 -0000

You are using one of my favourite WP themes (plaintxt) and Grant Croker is using another (veryplaintxt) - both excellent, minimalist designs from Scott Wallick. Weird. I guess both of you have great taste in design as well as databases.

Re: Have you had your Ingres Fixx?

notnull — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:00:41 -0000

I've just updated the wiki http://community.ingres.com/wi... for Fixx 1.4 and updated the set-up scripts attached to the page.

Re: Have you had your Ingres Fixx?

Sarat Pediredla — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:57:04 -0000

Hi Ray,

Just wanted to say thank you for the welcome and to re-iterate that we have an intensive and exciting roadmap as fixx speeds towards 2.0 and full Ingres support could well be a reality sooner than expected. Likewise, enterprise-specific features are being added and updated all the time, so I have no doubt fixx will be the perfect bug tracking solution for the enterprise.

On another note, I would like to thank you for the tireless effort you put in to getting fixx working with Ingres and your help with documenting the process. I sincerely hope we can continue the good work and deliver a cracking issue tracking solution for the Ingres community.

Re: Eight is a lucky number

notnull — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:10:35 -0000

Sarat, fixx certainly looks interesting. I'll definitely send you an email when I try it out. Thanks.

Re: Eight is a lucky number

Sarat Pediredla — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:51:47 -0000

Blatant self-promotion but if you would like to look at a issue and bug- tracker that could potentially support Ingres and can be used publicly, I would encourage you to take a look at fixx at http://hedgehoglab.com/product...

The dislaimer is that we have not tested it with Ingres, but since our core ORM is based in Hibernate, I am pretty confident it will run fine with Ingres. The current documentation does not talk about connecting to external databases, but this is being updated.

Open source licensing for fixx is on it's way, so feel free to drop us an e-mail and we would be happy to look at helping you set this up for Ingres and/or an open source license (or fee waiver).

Re: Date time paradox

seanb — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:55:15 -0000

"I have a date x. and I wish to know the date 10 month befor this x i.e. e.d. if it is 1st nov 2007 then 10 months before would be 1st feb 2007."

Surely you would just use date arithmetic? The date you would get 10 months before 1-Nov is 1-Jan.

select date('1-nov-07') - '10 months' ==> '1-jan-07'
select date('29-dec-07') - '10 months' ==> '28-feb-07'
select date('29-dec-08') - '10 months' ==> '29-feb-08'

Re: Date time paradox

notnull — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:00:10 -0000

From the description it is the number of days between the two dates that are required for the calculation. When using intervals in calculations Ingres assumes the following:Converts a date interval into a floating-point constant expressed in the unit of measurement specified by unit. The interval function assumes that there are 30.436875 days per month and 365.2425 days per year when using the mos, qtrs, and yrs specifications.

Using a month interval for calculations subtracts the number of months from the month component of the date leaving the day to be the same unless the day of the month doesn't exist.

Trying this with ANSI dates and intervals provides the same behaviour.

I've discussed this with John and we think that we're limited by Ingres date/time behaviour but we'll think about it some more.

Re: Date time paradox

Mrs Raghavan — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:53:59 -0000

Hi,
I happen to discuss with John Smedly regarding a date concept. I will post it here too. It goes like this: I have a date x. and I wish to know the date 10 month befor this x i.e. e.d. if it is 1st nov 2007 then 10 months before would be 1st feb 2007. This is calculations are needed for some calculations. here various options are when Feb with 28 days or 29 days comes in between or a the calender year changes etc. I do not know how to cater to this without much diffuculty. Till now we are havong a number of if's and else's in the .osq

Looking forward to hearing from you

thanks

Re: Sony PS3 II 9.1.0 (ppc.lnx/00)

grant — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:56:01 -0000

PSP port? http://www.pimpware.org/ for example :)

Re: Trade show jeopardy (just for fun)

clach04 — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:07:13 -0000

A few more:

11. No, Ingres was never owned by IBM
12. Yes Ingres has database procedures and has had them for at least a decade
13. Yes Ingres has replication
14. Yes Ingres has really is cross platform, did you see the PS3?
15. Yes even VMS
16. Yes, Report Writer and ABF are still available and they are open source

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

Mark Buckle — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 04:33:04 -0000

It's a shame IMA isn't better known and used. I started looking into its use when I was a full-time ingres user, but was seriously put off by the lack of easily-comprehensible documentation. Having used both SQL Server and Oracle in recent years, I believe that this is one of the areas in which ingres currently falls short of the opposition, but where, I'm sure, it could be brought up o strength very easily.
My feeling about ingres was always that there were people in the know, when it came to serious in-depth knowledge about the product, but they were either unwilling to share that knowledge, or unable to see the reason for others to need to know that information. Ingres needs its own Jonathon Lewis !

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

ray — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 04:35:24 -0000

Had to update the query to include session_lquery from the ima_server_sessions_query table. Serves me right for not including the table registration script that updates ima_server_sessions table.

Re: Hello and thanks

grant — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:35:26 -0000

any time ray