OH so the techie is asked to port data out of a completely crappy DB app and its suddenly his fault ??? There must be more to this story, anyone ?
Andrew.C -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dr Nigel Farrier Sent: Friday, 30 March 2007 1:49 PM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] backup! - FOSS databases vs entrenched solutions James wrote: > HI Cedric > > Two practices here moved from md2 to Md3, One spent over 10k and could > not get it working. The second worked with little or no trouble and > took about 8 hours to move all data from MD2 to MD3. > big study with statistical significance? My study of one took 2 hours to convert fom MD2 to BP (some 10,000 patients and many years worth of records). Didn't cost me anything ove and above the software. > The second practice said that cleaning the MD2 database was a critical > step and felt the failure to do this was the likely cause of the > practice which failed. > how would they know? what did they use to clean the database with - Omo? If you are referring to the database repair utility that came with MD2 I have had records lost and corrupted when using that (like a 2 year old boy suddenly developing a PAP smear recall) > The 10k plus spent in the week after the failure was on top of the > purchase price of MD3 trying to get it working. They are now using MD2 again and > planning to move to Zedmed. > > Regards > > James > $10K - sack the techie! N _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
