>> Jon said: >> This analysis now tells us that a sophisticated system for performing >> "aggregation" is the primary need of a medical information system - not >. "retrieval" as is currently the case. >> >Syan tan said: >which is what SQL is supposed to solve, with it's flexible query >language and query unifying table views.
SQL was never intended to be all things to data analytics - in fact it is principally a record retrieval facility with lite analytical functionality. Generalised Data Analytics will have to stretch the SQL envelope very significantly jon -- Jon Patrick Chair of Language Technology Australian R&D Centre for Health Informatics School of Information Technologies University of Sydney ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
