Andrew wrote: > > Who is prepared to use a clinical database that is not encrypted ?
Some vendors selectively encrypt data at the field level but these days it is done more for their commercial security than for data security. In the days of dbase tables there may have been some justification but with the transition to propper db servers the principal security should be now implemented at the database server's user/rights level. Field level encryption also introduces artificial constraints on what you can query within the database. Imagine trying to trying query a 1,000,000 row table where the WHERE clause refers to an encrypted field. Tony Eviston _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
