Its not the schema you want - just the data. As far as I know this remains the property of the Dr concerned. But I would think you need to know the layout of the DB to get it.

R

Hugh Leslie wrote:

Is there an issue of copyright here?  I am not sure if HCN or Medtech would
be happy for their exact schema to be reused in any other arena even if it
is open source...  Data is one thing - you own the data, but I think the
exact schema will be copyright.

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Does anyone know if this is possible with a MedTech32 database?

Is it possible to migrate the data so simply?

Cheers,

Chris.
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Sent: Sunday, 22 October 2006 4:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] SQL schema for billing

On Sunday 22 October 2006 14:44, Richard Hosking wrote:
as Pracsoft to a rails DB. If the DB schema is known this should be possible using a Ruby script.
The db schema of pracsoft is known and quite simple.
On Linux, you can use "mdbtools" to migrate the whole prasoft database to postgres or mysql with a single command

(On Debian / Ubuntu you can install mdbtools with "apt-get install mdbtools", then read the man file, copy the pracsoft Access database file onto your Linux box, and you are done in minutes.

Make sure you use the switches for "safe names" = replacing all spaces with underscores in table and column names etc

Once you have exported the database to postgres, you can use tools like
pgadmin3 to explore the database schema (apt-get install pgadmin3 ...)

Horst
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