are you suggesting distributed processing then ? With sql, you can pull the data to whatever supercomputer resources you have at your elite education centre. On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 09:32 +1000, Tim Churches wrote: > 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 >
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