Ingres & OpenROAD
Current Status & Future Plans
Emma McGrattan
September 2011
Ingres DBMS Status
 Ingres 10 Availability
– Linux x86 32/64
– Windows 32/64
– Solaris SPARC 32/64
– HP-UX RISC
10.0.1 Service Pack now in the planning stages
 Ingres 9.2.3 Services Packs
– Prepared for QA
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Beyond Ingres 10
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Geospatial
Management Toolset
Big data
Cloud deployment
Usability/Migration
Sprint contributions
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Geospatial Technology
Geospatial
Area of rapid growth and technology change.
Metamorphism of maps into Enterprise IT
Increasing ubiquity in consumer electronics
Necessity to manage resources
Growth opportunity for Analytics
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Open Source Geospatial Foundation
Non profit founded in 2006 to:
“support and promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies and data”
Over 440 committers and 7.7M Lines of code
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ESRI ArcMap Tool
Illustrating Cities of Canada
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..and now to view snowfall
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Browsing Ingres Spatial Data via ArcEditor
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The data behind the map
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Management Toolset
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Create a Database
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Server Connection
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Explorer
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Create User
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Usability/Migration
 Usability improvements
– ODBC client package
– Character set migration
 Roadmap
– More operations spanning both Ingres & VW types
– Lightweight client (e.g. no GCA)
– Client/server transliteration
– Transport compression
– More SQL compatibility
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OpenROAD Current Status
 OpenROAD 2006
– Terminal release for HP Tru64
– Enterprise support ends December 31st, 2011 2013
 OpenROAD 5.1 is the most current release
– GA platforms
• Windows, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX
– QA team is testing
• Linux
 OpenROAD 6.0 is now with QA
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OpenROAD Development Roadmap
(6-9 months out)
 OpenROAD 6.0
– Plans are for Windows only
– Superset of OpenROAD 5.1
– Primary differences are
• Built against Ingres 9.2
• Transparent Unicode Support
– QA going as expected
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OpenROAD Development Roadmap
(1-2 years out)
 Providing developers the ability to
improve appearance of applications
– Code Generation
• Frames / user classes
– Special effects
• Rounded corners / Transparency /
Sprites
– Tablefields
• Exact height and width
– Deployment
• LoadnRun contribution
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OpenROAD Development Roadmap (1-2 yrs)
Current
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Bitmap, Transparent, Rounded
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Longer Term OpenROAD
Development Roadmap
 OpenROAD Engine Work
– TreeviewFields
– OptionFields
 Built against Ingres 10.x
 Exploit Ingres 10.x
– Features
– Datatypes
 64 bit release
– Lots of foundation work needed
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Dankeschön!
UK IUA Code Sprint Contributions
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Interoperability & Migrations
 Row value constructors
 Multi-row inserts
 DECODE()
 REPEAT()
 RAND() & SRAND()
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Row Value Constructors and
Multi-Row Inserts
 Row value constructors
 Improved efficiency and performance
Example Multi-Row Insert
INSERT INTO Orders (OrderNo, ItemNo, Qty, UnitPrice)
VALUES (1200, 23478, 10, 30.00),
(1200, 15453, 4, 23.00),
(1200, 14545, 1, 89.00)
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DECODE() function
Syntax:
decode( expression , search , result [, search ,
result]... [, default] )
expression is the value to compare.
search is the value that is compared against expression.
result is the value returned, if expression is equal to search.
default is optional. If no matches are found, the decode will return
default. If default is omitted, then the decode statement will
return null (if no matches are found).
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DECODE() Example
SELECT supplier_name,
decode(supplier_id,10000, 'IBM',
10001, 'Microsoft',
10002, 'Hewlett Packard',
'Gateway') result
FROM suppliers;
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REPEAT() function
Syntax:
repeat (expr,n)
expr An expression that specifies the string to be
repeated.
n specifies the number of times to repeat the string.
Example:
REPEAT('REPEAT THIS', 5)
'REPEAT THISREPEAT THISREPEAT THISREPEAT
THISREPEAT THIS’
Synonym: replicate (expr,n)
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RAND() and SRAND()
 rand([seed])
– seed is an integer that gives the seed value. If seed is
not specified, it assigns a seed value at random. For
a specified seed value, the result returned is always
the same.
– Returns random float value between 0 and 1
 srand(int)
– Sets the starting point for generating a series of
pseudorandom values
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Usability – Loyal Ingres Users
 Terminal Monitor Formatting Enhancements
 Availability of last recorded query start time and
session start time in IIMONINTOR
 II_GCD_LOG support for %p – the process id; %d –
the date
 alterdb –readonly | -readwrite
 relocateckp - restore checkpoint to another
database, potentially in another Ingres instance
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Usability – Loyal Ingres Users
 Ability to turn on SC924 via config.dat and to switch
on a stackdump when it is triggered
 Audit log maintenance script to prevent disk full
problems
 infodb –database – display a list of databases
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Service Desk Enhancement Request 150914
 Check for empty
database name before
connecting to new
database in Query tab
 Complete
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Service Desk Enhancement Request 118655
 Change BgColor of
‘Database’ and ‘Table or
View’ entry fields in the
dialog titled ‘Select a
Database Table’ to indicate
that you can type into these
fields.
 Complete
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Service Desk Enhancement Request 118656
 Implement sorting by
clicking on a ‘Table
Selection:’ frame’s
header column to order
the rows in the display
table. Please implement
two levels of ordering.
 Complete
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Service Desk Enhancement Request 150994
 When suggesting a string
value for assignment to a
variable in the debugger
please enclose in single
quotes
 Complete
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Service Desk Enhancement Request 123158
 It would be nice to have
an option like 'always on
top' for the property
inspector.
 Complete
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Service Desk Enhancement Request 116927
 It should be possible to
create a new application
or component when right
clicking in the
applications or
components pane.
Currently the option 'new'
is not available on the
menus opened by right
mouse click.
 Complete
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Service Desk Enhancement Request 116927
 It should be possible to
create a new application
or component when right
clicking in the
applications or
components pane.
Currently the option 'new'
is not available on the
menus opened by right
mouse click.
 Complete
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Service Desk Enhancement Request 116927
 It should be possible to
create a new application
or component when right
clicking in the
applications or
components pane.
Currently the option 'new'
is not available on the
menus opened by right
mouse click.
 Complete
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Service Desk Enhancement Request 116925
 When you click on the
components pane and
then click on the 'new'
button, a popup for
creating a new
application gets opened.
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Service Desk Enhancement Request 116925
 The customer expects to
create a new component.
Either the 'new' button
should be dimmed, when
the components pane is
activated or when clicking
the 'new' button you
should get a list of
possible components to
create
 Complete
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Dankeschön!