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Over the past decade TCP/IP has become the industry standard protocol. To streamline our development and support processes, Actian Corporation will drop support for a number of obsolete network protocol drivers in the next major release of Ingres (post Ingres 10.1). These protocols are no longer used and in many cases have become unsupportable. A newer version of some of the drivers is now available. While these changes do not affect the current or any past release of Ingres, the announcement is...

There will be two webinars in the coming weeks around OpenROAD. The first one will be an introduction to the latest GA release, OpenROAD 5.1, and the second one will preview features we are working on for OpenROAD 6.2.

Details around both sessions are below.

Please come join us in learning more about OpenROAD.

If you have interest in addition additional OpenROAD webinars, please note a topic in the comment section and we'll make every effort to host...

The standard method for installing either a 32-bit or 64-bit Ingres ODBC Driver Package is to download the appropriate Ingres distribution and perform an Ingres Client Install. For explicit instructions on doing an install of this nature, see Getting the ODBC Driver. There are a few gotchas when performing a 32-bit ODBC Driver install on 64-bit Windows as the 32-bit ODBC Administrator is located in a non-obvious location. For more details, see Using 32-bit ODBC on 64-bit Windows.
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Members of the OpenROAD development team, Bodo Bergman, Brigitte Duplenne, and Joe Kronk along with Kim Ginnerup, Matt Rendell, Roy Deal Simon, and Oliver Oyston participated in an OpenROAD Sprint June 4th, 5th, and half-day on June 6th in Slough, UK. Fun and good times ensued while accomplishing a lot.

The OpenROAD Enhancement queue was thoroughly reviewed looking for potential projects that could completed in two days. Joe, being his usually overly optimistic and enthusiastic...

An exciting new agenda topic was added to the 2011 UK IUA this year allowing attendees to suggest and vote on features to add to the Ingres family of products. The Ingres family of products include but not limited to Ingres, OpenROAD, and VectorWise. This new informal gathering was very well received with so many suggestions that we ran out of time to discuss. Even if you were not able to bring your proposed feature before the group the ability to get your feature added to the list was still possible...