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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...

Are you beginning to plan your move to a Unicode environment? Looking to understand what will be involved in migrating your OpenROAD application to handle Unicode data?

OpenROAD 6.0

OpenROAD 6.0, Windows only, will provide transparent Unicode support; however, depending upon your application there may be some minor code changes involved. What transparent Unicode support means is that you do not need to modify your application data types, although you may need to change...

Are you running applications on 64 bit Windows? Are you frustrated when you discover that your 3rd party application is a pure 64 bit application requiring an Ingres 64 bit ODBC Driver but finding out that only a 32 bit Ingres ODBC Driver exists?

Your frustration can come to an end as Ingres has released a 64 bit Ingres ODBC driver with Ingres 10. In the ever increasing 64 bit architecture world, more and more 64 bit specific ODBC application interfaces are being deployed. A 64 bit...