Notes

What the drivers did, written down.

Short write-ups of findings from running one workload through fifty-three databases' ODBC drivers: the exact error text, what causes it, and what to do. Each one is also recorded upstream.

The first week's findings, summarised: 24 ODBC driver bugs found in 13 database projects, on theaivibe.org. New notes: Atom feed.

2026-09-03

The Ingres ODBC client kills any Java process that loads it

Three defects in the Actian Ingres 10.1 ODBC client, each with its exact error text - the signal-handler takeover that aborts a JVM, the four-byte SQLWCHAR that truncates the connection string under unixODBC, and the 32-byte Driver= buffer.