syan tan wrote: >> 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. >> > which is what SQL is supposed to solve, with it's flexible query > language and query unifying table views.
Every tried to fit a time-series regression model with SQL, Syan, or to even to calculate an odds ration or relative risk from a contingency table derived from individual patient records, using SQL? The latter is actually possible, just, but gee, it's really difficult to do and it's really not the right tool for the job. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
