-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Twyford Sent: Wednesday, 1 February 2006 10:59 AM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] File repair utility in MD2
Cedric, I guess I've always felt a bit uneasy about the uptake of wholesale scanning by larger practices into MD2. The change in the FRU policy no doubt reflects HCN bowing to complaints about how long the FRU was taking in practices who'd been doing wholesale scanning for a while. It will be equally interesting to see how the Redmap system works, and its raison d'être seems to be getting the data bulk caused by mass scanning out of MSDE/MS SQL. I guess the threshold for practices incurring the expense of moving from MSDE to MS SQL would be a lot lower, in terms of practice size, if all the scanned stuff went into MSDE with its 2 GB data limit. That would make lots of MD3 users unhappy about the extra cost. I assume Redmap was a cheaper alternative Best Practice faces this same issue as it also uses MSDE. Makes me think MS SQL has been a bad choice from a market share point of view. Surprise, surprise. Greg -- Greg Twyford Information Management & Technology Program Officer Canterbury Division of General Practice E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph.: 02 9787 9033 Fax: 02 9787 9200 *********************************************************************** *********************************************************************** Greg Another user made following comments on another forum www.ausgp.com "I am of the belief that this was due to the lack of knowledge of the MSDE product by the programmers at HCN. I believe that they falsely understood that there is a 2GB per instance limit on MSDE. This is obviously not the case. There is a 2Gb per database limit, but some 64K databases per instance which equates to a maximum of 64K x 2GB = 128Tb data per MSDE instance. I know of other clinical software providers that aren't interested in using MSDE to it's full capacity, with a believe that either the mystical 2GB limit or the concurrency governing restrictions would have a substantial impact on a large practice. I believe that BP's programming shows this to be incorrect as BP seems to be happily running on MSDE in large practices with large databases. " As you can see the 2GB limit problem is not a problem. Hence BP has had no problems in large practices because Frank did his homework and hence is a better programmer. It is important that we do not spread this false rumour of the 2GB limit, because we then show users we know as little as the scaremongers. Cedric _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
