Ingres have officially announced their column-store feature for Ingres:
http://www.ingres.com/vectorwise/index.php.
Even those of you at the IUA conference might have missed it when Bill
Maimone demonstrated querying a 180 million row table in a couple of

Does anyone know where I could obtain either the 2.6 or 2.7 client
from for Vista please.
We are rolling out Vista to our client base but infrastructure is
currently based on 2.5. Currently plan to test 9.4 Community client

If I have a query which has both 'group by' and 'order by' clauses AND
the ordering is on a column which is NOT part of the grouping it appears
to stop the 'grouping by' completely silently.
Eg.

I guess HVR is (again?) the preferred replication application for INGRES?

I was hoping somebody could answer this one way or another.  I am
relatively new to Ingres coming from MS SQLServer.  One of the
extremely useful things I used to be able to do in SQLServer was to
trace (profile) all SQL running on the server using a utility called

Hi Karl,
I'm wondering what your opinion is on PostgreSQL's MVCC locking mechanism.
Regards,
Jürgen

  Does anyone have an accurate way to calculate the amount of disk
spaces needed for tables ?
 I followed up the method in the section of calculating disk space
from Database Administrator's Guide to do the calculation. It seems

Guys,
I have a fresh install of Ingres 9.2, i would like to put it to work
as Oracle. I mean
RC - Read Committed

There is an interesting report from Noel Yuhannah at Forrester which is
available via http://www.ingres.com/about/press/09-0708-dbms.php.
Just glancing through it I thought most of it made sense, but Figure 2
on page 8 has a couple of puzzling entries.

When I reply to your email I get:
The following message to <leandro@unisc.br> was undeliverable.
The reason for the problem:
5.1.0 - Unknown address error 550-'5.7.1 Conteudo Inutil(SPAM) - Header

Our infrastructure consists of ABF applications which use pessimistic
concurrency by means of table locking etc
In the attempt of upgrading those applications some colleagues have
opted for Openroad which makes the transition much easier but they

FYI
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2009/06/ingres_an_open.html
--
Jean-Pierre Zuate

There doesn't seem to be a simple way to trace the ODBC calls from the
client side.
I'm trying to track down a problem in a crystal report with a date
parameter.