Ingres 2006 Release 3
In today’s world, system downtime can mean the difference between a healthy bottom line and business disaster. When key business systems fail, it can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per hour to your business. Whether the effect is lost productivity to your accounts receivables department, shipping delays to your fleet or lost business from your web store, downtime means lost dollars when a mission critical system fails. Ingres 2006 Release 3 is engineered to keep your Ingres-based solutions up and available around the clock. Ingres 2006 Release 3 is the only Open Source relational database that provides both the flexibility of Open Source with the enterprise-proven availability and reliability of commercial RDBMS platforms.
Ingres 2006 Release 3 continues to reduce the complexity, time, database administrator (DBA) skills and cost associated with database management by helping to eliminate, simplify and automate many tasks traditionally associated with maintaining an enterprise-class database. Upgrading from previous releases of Ingres is a simple, highly automated task.
Ingres enables business partners and customers to improve their profitability, reduce their risk and deliver best of breed solutions to customers.
Ingres 2006 Release 3 is an update focused on providing a flexible, easy to use platform optimized for the Java development of multi-language applications. In addition, new features improve the availability and supportability of Ingres 2006 Release 3.
Internationalized Applications
Today, more and more businesses are global businesses. It is imperative that business applications support the many languages users both inside and outside the company use to communicate.
Ingres 2006 Release 3 introduces new features to support today’s global businesses:
- Support for the UTF-8 Character Set
- Support for Unicode upper and lower case
Improved Availability
Business systems today have to be up 24 x 7 to serve customers and employees from Boise to Bangkok. Ingres has over 20 years experience supporting highly available systems for mission critical applications. With Release 3, new features further improve the robustness of the Ingres server:
- Roll forward Re-start
- Logging of backups
- Logging of Roll forward
- Logging of database verification
Improved SQL Development
Ingres continues to support the latest standards including Java™ Database Connectivity (JDBC), open database connectivity (ODBC) and .NET Data Provider. This is another example of Ingres' commitment to producing standards-based software that works in today's open world.
Ingres 2006 Release 3 introduces new SQL constructs and concepts to simplify the development of web-based applications:
- Support for scrollable cursors
- New numeric functions
- New string functions
Improved Support for Content Management Systems
- LOB locator support
- Improved performance of string comparisons
Easier to Use, Less Expensive to Support
Shrinking IT budgets translate to fewer resources to support more systems. At Ingres, we understand this. With Ingres 2006 Release 3, we've introduced features to reduce the amount of time needed to keep your systems running smoothly.
- Better defaults for large systems
- Default storage structure for indexed tables
- Improved Exception Handling and Tracing
- New Product demos
More opportunity to take advantage of the power and flexibility of the Ingres database solution
- World-class support from knowledgeable Ingres experts
- Dedicated consultants available to provide premium services
- Catalogue of training and educational courses
These new technology features, coupled with Ingres world-class services and support, provide customers with the ability to deploy a reliable and powerful open source database solution to protect their mission critical data. The solution is easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use and easy-to-manage, giving enterprise customers a solid low-cost database solution.