Actian Community Blogs

Ever tried to upgrade from an older (sometimes unsupported) version of OpenROAD to the current release and not known exactly where to begin.

In addtion to the information provided at OpenROAD New Features per Release - Ingres Community Wiki, beginning with OpenROAD 6.0, a Migration Guide is being provided to assist with various upgrade scenarios. It is available at http://docs.actian.com/openroad/6.0/migration-guide.

It is difficult to anticipate all problems that...

One can face a problem when migrating from MySQL to VectorWise, when a fast and appropriate method is required. Using multiple inserts is not the way VectorWise likes to see it, but using additional dumps can have a high storage cost.

I shall give here a hint, how to migrate large tables from MySQL to VectorWise using low disk space and memory usage. We'll use linux named pipes. First we have to create a pipe:

$ mknod my_pipe p

Now we make a query to...

It's always challenging to discover what features were released in a particular Ingres version when trying to plan a migration from one release of Ingres to another.

This document attempts to complement the Ingres Migration Guide by not only providing the list of features but also including the associated project page if one exists on the Community Wiki. In some cases, the release will predate the move by Ingres Engineering to make the design documents of new features readily accessible...