My question on this thread revolves around getting some insight into
what motivates an academic to join M&C (regardless of the single minded
efficacy of his extensive projects) I like to use woodworking as an
analogy ...is he giving us the 5-in-1 Shopsmith that doesnt do any
throughput with efficiency and always interferes with flow of use ...or
is he setting up the complete woodshop with interrelated tools.
I am especially wondering about the issue of databases, as Okane states
in the 2nd link in Kevins starting post:
"Through a built-in RDBMS interface, this version of Mumps permits
programs to create and load on demand multiple global array views from
an underlying relational data base server. Thus, while a Mumps
application requiring a patient oriented view of the Lab data base could
load a view ordered hierarchically by (PatientId, Lab, Test, Date, Time,
Result), another Mumps application oriented towards cohort searches
could load a global ordered hierarchically by (Lab, Test, Date, Time,
Result, PatientId) with both applications relying on the same underlying
RDBMS."
Here is an academic who seems to want both machines in the shop and
seems to believe these database concepts are complimentary. The same
person has a todo list intending to add Fileman to the standard
untilites into his M/C Compiler distribution. So does Fileman render the
use of RDBS moot?
Whatever the academic benefit of these fusions, is there any benefit
to maintaining a dataset in both heirarchical and relational forms?
Is this a metaphor of fleet management or building a hotrod?
Within Vista architecture is there difficulty in moving between views or
"cohorts" which Okane refers to?
Should the delivery of care folks be using heirarchical database and the
"enterprise" of administrators be using RDBS?
Will Vista Office need the parallel RDBS data anyway for reasons of
interfacing and management?
Looking forward to all thoughts
Rusty
Kevin Toppenberg wrote:
Rusty sent me some interesting links off list about a
M compiler that converts M code in c++, to then be
compiled into separate executables.
Here are the links
http://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane/
http://math-cs.cns.uni.edu/~okane/cgi-bin/newpres/papers/migration/982.html
Have these been seen before, and has anyone any
interest in them?
Kevin
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