Re: [Hardhats-members] Default Editor for Vista and MailMan OpenFORUM email

2005-06-11 Thread Nancy Anthracite
Sleep?  What is that?  

On Saturday 11 June 2005 01:01 am, Kevin Toppenberg wrote:
 I just played with this some more, and data from one
 edit is showing up in the data from next edit.  I'll
 need to debug this some more after I get some sleep...

 Kevin

 --- Kevin Toppenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Ok.  I have gotten this working.
 
  I created an ALTERNATE EDITOR entry that calls
  custom
  code.  This code gets the data from the database,
  writes it to a file.  Then launches a linux editor
  (e.g. joe) to edit the data.  When joe is done, the
  data is put back into the database.
 
  I have documented this here:

 http://openforum.worldvista.org/~forum/index.php?title=Using_a_linux_editor
_inside_VistA

  Hope it works for you.  I am glad to figure this
  out,
  because I found the VistA screen editor to be
  difficult to use.
 
  Kevin
 
 
  --- Ismet Kursunoglu, MD [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  wrote:
There is an ALTERNATE EDITOR file (I think I got
  
   the name right) that
  
provides a platform independent mechanism for
  
   invoking editors (much  as
  
   This is what I found. I am running GT.M V5.0-FT01
   Linux x86 (under
   debian-pure64 sid with emulation) and VistA
   FOIA20050227 from Bhaskar.
  
   **
   OUTPUT FROM WHAT FILE: ALTERNATE EDITOR//
  
  -A- SEARCH FOR ALTERNATE EDITOR FIELD: ?
Answer with FIELD NUMBER, or LABEL
   Choose from:
   .01  NAME
   1ACTIVATION CODE FROM DIWE
   2OK TO RUN TEST
   3RETURN TO CALLING EDITOR
   7DESCRIPTION   (word-processing)
  
  
  -A- SEARCH FOR ALTERNATE EDITOR FIELD:
   **
  
   Would it be possible to evoke ZEDIT and have it
   display for example with
 Mailman or for that matter anywhere else in
 
  VistA?
 
   I would think not.
  
On Jun 6, 2005, at 6:16 AM, K.S. Bhaskar wrote:
Ismet --
   
Set the EDITOR environment variable before
  
   starting GT.M to point  to
  
any editor.  When ZEDIT function is invoked
  
   from inside GT.M,  it
  
will start the editor pointed to by $EDITOR,
  
   e.g.:
source /usr/local/gtm/gtmprofile
export EDITOR=`which vim`
mumps -dir
GTMZEDIT XYZ
   
I am not sure, however, whether VistA invokes
 
  an
 
   editor with  ZEDIT.
  
I don't know why it is presenting VMSEDT as a
  
   choice for  GT.M on
  
Linux. What happens if you take that choice?
  
   That was from the OpenForum server - I am not sure
   what systems they are
   running under. When I use that it evokes an editor
   that looks like this
  
   Select MailMan Menu Option: SML  Send a Message
  
   Subject: testing
   You may enter the text of the message...
  1This is just a test to see what the VMSEDT
   option sets for the editor.
  2
   EDIT Option: ?
 Choose, by first letter, a Word Processing
   Command
 or type a Line Number to edit that line.
   EDIT Option:
   Send mail to: KURSUNOGLU,ISMET//
 
  KURSUNOGLU,ISMET
 
   --
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   Medical Director
   Alaska Clinic, LLC
   3750 Country Field Circle, UNIT B
   Wasilla, Alaska 99654
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Re: [Hardhats-members] Default Editor for Vista and MailMan OpenFORUM email

2005-06-11 Thread Chris Richardson
Nancy;

   Sleep is one of those impractical myths, (like vacations and having a
relationship) that take time away from our productivity.
Only the enlightened have been able to overcome such distractions.   ;^)

- Original Message -
From: Nancy Anthracite [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 5:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Default Editor for Vista and MailMan
OpenFORUM email


 Sleep?  What is that?

 On Saturday 11 June 2005 01:01 am, Kevin Toppenberg wrote:
  I just played with this some more, and data from one
  edit is showing up in the data from next edit.  I'll
  need to debug this some more after I get some sleep...
 
  Kevin
 
  --- Kevin Toppenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   Ok.  I have gotten this working.
  
   I created an ALTERNATE EDITOR entry that calls
   custom
   code.  This code gets the data from the database,
   writes it to a file.  Then launches a linux editor
   (e.g. joe) to edit the data.  When joe is done, the
   data is put back into the database.
  
   I have documented this here:
 
 
http://openforum.worldvista.org/~forum/index.php?title=Using_a_linux_editor
 _inside_VistA
 
   Hope it works for you.  I am glad to figure this
   out,
   because I found the VistA screen editor to be
   difficult to use.
  
   Kevin
  
  
   --- Ismet Kursunoglu, MD [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  
   wrote:
 There is an ALTERNATE EDITOR file (I think I got
   
the name right) that
   
 provides a platform independent mechanism for
   
invoking editors (much  as
   
This is what I found. I am running GT.M V5.0-FT01
Linux x86 (under
debian-pure64 sid with emulation) and VistA
FOIA20050227 from Bhaskar.
   
**
OUTPUT FROM WHAT FILE: ALTERNATE EDITOR//
   
   -A- SEARCH FOR ALTERNATE EDITOR FIELD: ?
 Answer with FIELD NUMBER, or LABEL
Choose from:
.01  NAME
1ACTIVATION CODE FROM DIWE
2OK TO RUN TEST
3RETURN TO CALLING EDITOR
7DESCRIPTION   (word-processing)
   
   
   -A- SEARCH FOR ALTERNATE EDITOR FIELD:
**
   
Would it be possible to evoke ZEDIT and have it
display for example with
  Mailman or for that matter anywhere else in
  
   VistA?
  
I would think not.
   
 On Jun 6, 2005, at 6:16 AM, K.S. Bhaskar wrote:
 Ismet --

 Set the EDITOR environment variable before
   
starting GT.M to point  to
   
 any editor.  When ZEDIT function is invoked
   
from inside GT.M,  it
   
 will start the editor pointed to by $EDITOR,
   
e.g.:
 source /usr/local/gtm/gtmprofile
 export EDITOR=`which vim`
 mumps -dir
 GTMZEDIT XYZ

 I am not sure, however, whether VistA invokes
  
   an
  
editor with  ZEDIT.
   
 I don't know why it is presenting VMSEDT as a
   
choice for  GT.M on
   
 Linux. What happens if you take that choice?
   
That was from the OpenForum server - I am not sure
what systems they are
running under. When I use that it evokes an editor
that looks like this
   
Select MailMan Menu Option: SML  Send a Message
   
Subject: testing
You may enter the text of the message...
   1This is just a test to see what the VMSEDT
option sets for the editor.
   2
EDIT Option: ?
  Choose, by first letter, a Word Processing
Command
  or type a Line Number to edit that line.
EDIT Option:
Send mail to: KURSUNOGLU,ISMET//
  
   KURSUNOGLU,ISMET
  
--
Ismet B. Kursunoglu, MD, FCCP
Medical Director
Alaska Clinic, LLC
3750 Country Field Circle, UNIT B
Wasilla, Alaska 99654
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(907)357-7240
 
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RE: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

2005-06-11 Thread Gillon, Joseph
Listen, I'm not sure what this says, but I somehow feel the need to make it
clear I have nothing but respect for VistA and its developers.  It was
great, in fact, still is, but the old gray mare ain't what she used to be
and is aging by the day.  All systems that are worth a damn someday reach
obsolescence.  Which ain't to say VistA's going away any time soon.  It's
not hard to imagine a few years from now when several non-VA systems will be
using it and the VA won't be.  But the stuff the VA produces to replace it
will be public domain too...

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard
G. DAVIS
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 12:18 AM
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

I understand the dichotomy Gregory mentions, and I agree with the views he
has expressed.

However, I believe the fundamental issue is less a technical matter and more
an natural 'tension' between concerns for operational
effectiveness--delivery of quality health care, and the interest in
administrative IT that arises from management.  These two groups in most any
enterprise you may choose to study are chronically in a state of 'conflict'
due their different priorities and requirements for IT, and information
management architecture.

Where these competing forces arrive at a state of least tension, you usually
find that the two groups have separated their IT, both software and hardware
into two largely independent systems.

For those who have been in university/college settings, you may remember
that those institutions tend to have academic computer centers and
associated resources under the governance of some faculty body, and separate
administrative computer systems used to run the university controlled the
the 'CEO' of the institution.

DHCP has also been chronically plagued with an interesting form of this
problem, that waxes and wanes over time.

At present within the VA we see the administrative folks throwing their
territorial imperatives around and not giving due consideration to the
operational requirements of the enterprise.  These 'conflicts' are often
deflected into debates about hardware issues, and software system issues,
all of which are usually not at all relevant to the bed-rock forces at work
here.  The person who says MUMPS is a dead language, get rid of VistA
simply doesn¹t understand the problem.  It is easier to indict a technology
that can't defend itself, that to tackle the real core problem(s).

Thus, the matter is not really about decentralized or centralized IT
resources.  It is all about meeting the needs of health care delivery staff
and at the same time satisfying the needs of management.

I am frequently convinced that the best outcomes are achieved with
organizational structures, and IT systems that permit two relatively
independent systems to coexist, one optimized for health care delivery, and
one optimized for organizational administration.  (The obvious need for
effective interaction between these two systems is a subordinate or
collateral matter to the core issue.)

At the outset, DHCP was essentially free of intrusion of administrative
demands.  We built what seemed best for patient care.  Only as Congress has
insisted that the DVA generate some revenue to supplement appropriated funds
has the 'administrative' fist come down in a heavy handed way on top of the
health care interests.  (Yes, there are other forces in play here as well.)
This trend has promoted increased 'tension' between the operational and
administrative sides of the house.

The process needs to be focused on the organizational behavior issues where
the natural conflicts between the two sides of the house can be resolved
appropriately.  These processes are not technology based or driven.
Instead, they are very much about organization and management.  (It is in
the spirit of the best of breed bureaucrats who prefer diffusion of
responsibility and scape-goating of technology that we so often see the cry
to throw out the 'old' stuff.)

Clearly, the VAH health care delivery process is mission critical and
focused on the patient.  The IT system need there is for a highly
'decentralized' framework that is centered on the patient/caregiver
partnership.

On the other hand, the DVA administration process must be able to
effectively manage the resources of the DVA to maintain its two main lines
of business--entitlements and sick veterans.  That requires a highly
'centralized' IT framework that is centered on the problem of enterprise
management.

Whether these two groups are served by a single monolithic hardware system
buried in a Colorado mountain, or by two slightly smaller computer systems
situated at opposite ends of the Continental US, or by a massive number of
desktop computers is really not too important once the balance between these
two competing groups has been achieved.  After that, all us 'techno-nerds'
can go off 

Re: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

2005-06-11 Thread Nancy Anthracite
It seem to me that you do want is an M database that is reengineered for VistA 
because of its speed, easier mantainance and reliability and additionally, 
the ability to do SQL queries on that database.  Seems like Cache delivers 
that and with the right additional software, GT.M can do that as well.  

The Intersystems folks knew what they were doing when they bought up all of 
those flavors of M.  The Epic folks know what they are doing as well.  

Relational databases are slower and that has long been recognized, and they 
require a lot more work to maintain and design.  Oracle is probably the 
gorilla in that field and is very expensive and slow.  Yea, maybe you get 
some pretty reports from it, but not likely in real time.  

Tell all of the busy healh care worker why they have to wait when they should 
be taking care of patients so that you can get reports easily.  The patients 
and those who care for them are not likely to be very understanding.  

On Saturday 11 June 2005 01:39 pm, Gillon, Joseph wrote:
 Listen, I'm not sure what this says, but I somehow feel the need to make it
 clear I have nothing but respect for VistA and its developers.  It was
 great, in fact, still is, but the old gray mare ain't what she used to be
 and is aging by the day.  All systems that are worth a damn someday reach
 obsolescence.  Which ain't to say VistA's going away any time soon.  It's
 not hard to imagine a few years from now when several non-VA systems will
 be using it and the VA won't be.  But the stuff the VA produces to replace
 it will be public domain too...

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard
 G. DAVIS
 Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 12:18 AM
 To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
 Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

 I understand the dichotomy Gregory mentions, and I agree with the views
 he has expressed.

 However, I believe the fundamental issue is less a technical matter and
 more an natural 'tension' between concerns for operational
 effectiveness--delivery of quality health care, and the interest in
 administrative IT that arises from management.  These two groups in most
 any enterprise you may choose to study are chronically in a state of
 'conflict' due their different priorities and requirements for IT, and
 information management architecture.

 Where these competing forces arrive at a state of least tension, you
 usually find that the two groups have separated their IT, both software and
 hardware into two largely independent systems.

 For those who have been in university/college settings, you may remember
 that those institutions tend to have academic computer centers and
 associated resources under the governance of some faculty body, and
 separate administrative computer systems used to run the university
 controlled the the 'CEO' of the institution.

 DHCP has also been chronically plagued with an interesting form of this
 problem, that waxes and wanes over time.

 At present within the VA we see the administrative folks throwing their
 territorial imperatives around and not giving due consideration to the
 operational requirements of the enterprise.  These 'conflicts' are often
 deflected into debates about hardware issues, and software system issues,
 all of which are usually not at all relevant to the bed-rock forces at work
 here.  The person who says MUMPS is a dead language, get rid of VistA
 simply doesn¹t understand the problem.  It is easier to indict a technology
 that can't defend itself, that to tackle the real core problem(s).

 Thus, the matter is not really about decentralized or centralized IT
 resources.  It is all about meeting the needs of health care delivery staff
 and at the same time satisfying the needs of management.

 I am frequently convinced that the best outcomes are achieved with
 organizational structures, and IT systems that permit two relatively
 independent systems to coexist, one optimized for health care delivery, and
 one optimized for organizational administration.  (The obvious need for
 effective interaction between these two systems is a subordinate or
 collateral matter to the core issue.)

 At the outset, DHCP was essentially free of intrusion of administrative
 demands.  We built what seemed best for patient care.  Only as Congress has
 insisted that the DVA generate some revenue to supplement appropriated
 funds has the 'administrative' fist come down in a heavy handed way on top
 of the health care interests.  (Yes, there are other forces in play here as
 well.) This trend has promoted increased 'tension' between the operational
 and administrative sides of the house.

 The process needs to be focused on the organizational behavior issues where
 the natural conflicts between the two sides of the house can be resolved
 appropriately.  These processes are not technology based or driven.
 Instead, they are very much about organization and 

Re: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

2005-06-11 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Actually, I think VistA's growing pains (or death throes, depending  
on your point of view), really has much less to do with the  
underlying language and DBMS than many suppose. The trouble is that  
it is such an obvious difference between VistA and some other systems  
that we tend to focus on it far too much, thinking this is where we  
can find the reason for its success or failure.


===
Gregory Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Before one gets the right answer, one must ask the right question.  
-- S. Barry Cooper



On Jun 11, 2005, at 12:00 PM, Nancy Anthracite wrote:

It seem to me that you do want is an M database that is  
reengineered for VistA
because of its speed, easier mantainance and reliability and  
additionally,
the ability to do SQL queries on that database.  Seems like Cache  
delivers

that and with the right additional software, GT.M can do that as well.

The Intersystems folks knew what they were doing when they bought  
up all of

those flavors of M.  The Epic folks know what they are doing as well.

Relational databases are slower and that has long been recognized,  
and they
require a lot more work to maintain and design.  Oracle is probably  
the
gorilla in that field and is very expensive and slow.  Yea, maybe  
you get

some pretty reports from it, but not likely in real time.

Tell all of the busy healh care worker why they have to wait when  
they should
be taking care of patients so that you can get reports easily.  The  
patients

and those who care for them are not likely to be very understanding.





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Re: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

2005-06-11 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
I'm just on my way out the door right now, but while I think the relational model sometimes gets a raw deal around here, I also agree that it is not the be and end all of database technology. If you try and sit down and work through the mathematics, you'll quickly find that object models have their problem (not insurmountable, IMO), too. I do think we're seeing the beginnings of a paradigm shift (and only recently forwarded the message from ACM Queue on "post-relational" technology). UML is maturing, metadata is really picking up steam, and I believe ODMG is a much more solid specification than Date and others give it credit for. On a theoretical level, there are a lot of areas of work (such as ontologies and computational applications of modal logic) that I believe are very promising. At the time of Dr. Codd's seminal work, many of these ideas were only beginning to take shape. ===Gregory Woodhouse[EMAIL PROTECTED]"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing moreto add, but when there is nothing left to take away."-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery On Jun 11, 2005, at 1:48 PM, GARY MONGER wrote:From my perspective relational SQL databases have served well in a one size fits all sort of way, but they are hardly the summit of 21st century system design. I dont hold that 21st century necessarily holds a better solution either. Ive seen some very well done raw MUMPS systems, even some with SQL mappings for those that like verbose queries. SQL mapping of VistA data has been available for some time. The HDR historical project will result in a SQL mapping of the bulk of VistA clinical data.A database, well designed and implemented, be it SQL, Fileman, MUMPS, filing cabinet, shoebox, or whatever can solve some problems well, others not so well. No matter what the technology, no matter what the architecture, no matter what the design, any system that replaces VistA will have significant shortcomings. The task is so massive, and so varied that no choice will serve every aspect well. The real issue at hand is how to get it implemented well. I think the VHA has and will continue to struggle with this. Its a tough problem, especially for a government agency.Managing implementation is also a tough problem for World VistA. I can see that there is some good work going on, but Im curious about how major efforts will be handled. This data standardization issue is not an easy one to solve, its the nature of the clinical world. Will that be tackled by World VistA? What about name and number spaces? How about mods to Kernel, HL7, and Broker? I buy the open source model for development, at least theoretically, but were not talking about a Linux Kernel here. In addition to the scale, VistA has very real ties to VHA development, which is likely to continue for quite some time, and now there is VistA-Office as well.As for shooting VistA in the head ASAP, maybe we should get the new horse saddled up before shooting the one were riding.

RE: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

2005-06-11 Thread Joseph . Gillon
Yes, it will be interesting to see what can be done with Cache.  We're
looking into the patient screening issue I mentioned previously, for
example.

It's interesting, I never heard of this M/VistA being faster than SQL
relational until I started reading these messages.  I'm keen to see if
that's true.  I just got done writing an HL7 data access object to talk to
the HDR which is Oracle.  (Don't ask why I'm talking HL7 to an Oracle
database, I'm not sure I know myself.)  I will certainly be looking at the
speed.

Yes, Oracle is expensive, perhaps prohibitively so.  Is that the only game
in town, I wonder?  Surely there's something between SQL Server and Oracle?

And yes, speed is essential.  It's what makes VistAWeb so popular with
providers, along with its simple interface.  I'm not gonna be happy if the
HDR slows it down.

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nancy
Anthracite
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 3:00 PM
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

It seem to me that you do want is an M database that is reengineered for
VistA 
because of its speed, easier mantainance and reliability and additionally, 
the ability to do SQL queries on that database.  Seems like Cache delivers 
that and with the right additional software, GT.M can do that as well.  

The Intersystems folks knew what they were doing when they bought up all of 
those flavors of M.  The Epic folks know what they are doing as well.  

Relational databases are slower and that has long been recognized, and they 
require a lot more work to maintain and design.  Oracle is probably the 
gorilla in that field and is very expensive and slow.  Yea, maybe you get 
some pretty reports from it, but not likely in real time.  

Tell all of the busy healh care worker why they have to wait when they
should 
be taking care of patients so that you can get reports easily.  The patients

and those who care for them are not likely to be very understanding.  

On Saturday 11 June 2005 01:39 pm, Gillon, Joseph wrote:
 Listen, I'm not sure what this says, but I somehow feel the need to make
it
 clear I have nothing but respect for VistA and its developers.  It was
 great, in fact, still is, but the old gray mare ain't what she used to be
 and is aging by the day.  All systems that are worth a damn someday reach
 obsolescence.  Which ain't to say VistA's going away any time soon.  It's
 not hard to imagine a few years from now when several non-VA systems will
 be using it and the VA won't be.  But the stuff the VA produces to replace
 it will be public domain too...

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard
 G. DAVIS
 Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 12:18 AM
 To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
 Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

 I understand the dichotomy Gregory mentions, and I agree with the views
 he has expressed.

 However, I believe the fundamental issue is less a technical matter and
 more an natural 'tension' between concerns for operational
 effectiveness--delivery of quality health care, and the interest in
 administrative IT that arises from management.  These two groups in most
 any enterprise you may choose to study are chronically in a state of
 'conflict' due their different priorities and requirements for IT, and
 information management architecture.

 Where these competing forces arrive at a state of least tension, you
 usually find that the two groups have separated their IT, both software
and
 hardware into two largely independent systems.

 For those who have been in university/college settings, you may remember
 that those institutions tend to have academic computer centers and
 associated resources under the governance of some faculty body, and
 separate administrative computer systems used to run the university
 controlled the the 'CEO' of the institution.

 DHCP has also been chronically plagued with an interesting form of this
 problem, that waxes and wanes over time.

 At present within the VA we see the administrative folks throwing their
 territorial imperatives around and not giving due consideration to the
 operational requirements of the enterprise.  These 'conflicts' are often
 deflected into debates about hardware issues, and software system issues,
 all of which are usually not at all relevant to the bed-rock forces at
work
 here.  The person who says MUMPS is a dead language, get rid of VistA
 simply doesn¹t understand the problem.  It is easier to indict a
technology
 that can't defend itself, that to tackle the real core problem(s).

 Thus, the matter is not really about decentralized or centralized IT
 resources.  It is all about meeting the needs of health care delivery
staff
 and at the same time satisfying the needs of management.

 I am frequently convinced that the best outcomes are achieved with
 organizational 

Re: [Hardhats-members] Default Editor for Vista and MailMan OpenFORUM email

2005-06-11 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
I think it is working appropriately now.  I forgot to
new one of my variables.  It's fixed on the wikki
site.

Hope that works for you all.
Kevin


--- Kevin Toppenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I just played with this some more, and data from one
 edit is showing up in the data from next edit.  I'll
 need to debug this some more after I get some
 sleep...
 
 Kevin
 
 
 --- Kevin Toppenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Ok.  I have gotten this working.
  
  I created an ALTERNATE EDITOR entry that calls
  custom
  code.  This code gets the data from the database,
  writes it to a file.  Then launches a linux editor
  (e.g. joe) to edit the data.  When joe is done,
 the
  data is put back into the database.
  
  I have documented this here:
 

http://openforum.worldvista.org/~forum/index.php?title=Using_a_linux_editor_inside_VistA
  
  Hope it works for you.  I am glad to figure this
  out,
  because I found the VistA screen editor to be
  difficult to use.
  
  Kevin
  
  
  --- Ismet Kursunoglu, MD [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  wrote:
  
   
There is an ALTERNATE EDITOR file (I think I
 got
   the name right) that  
provides a platform independent mechanism for
   invoking editors (much  as 
   
   This is what I found. I am running GT.M
 V5.0-FT01
   Linux x86 (under 
   debian-pure64 sid with emulation) and VistA
   FOIA20050227 from Bhaskar.
   
   **
   OUTPUT FROM WHAT FILE: ALTERNATE EDITOR//
   
  -A- SEARCH FOR ALTERNATE EDITOR FIELD: ?
Answer with FIELD NUMBER, or LABEL
   Choose from:
   .01  NAME
   1ACTIVATION CODE FROM DIWE
   2OK TO RUN TEST
   3RETURN TO CALLING EDITOR
   7DESCRIPTION   (word-processing)
   
   
  -A- SEARCH FOR ALTERNATE EDITOR FIELD:
   **
   
   Would it be possible to evoke ZEDIT and have it
   display for example with 
 Mailman or for that matter anywhere else in
  VistA?
   I would think not.
   
On Jun 6, 2005, at 6:16 AM, K.S. Bhaskar
 wrote:

Ismet --
   
Set the EDITOR environment variable before
   starting GT.M to point  to 
any editor.  When ZEDIT function is invoked
   from inside GT.M,  it 
will start the editor pointed to by $EDITOR,
   e.g.:
   
source /usr/local/gtm/gtmprofile
export EDITOR=`which vim`
mumps -dir
GTMZEDIT XYZ
   
I am not sure, however, whether VistA invokes
  an
   editor with  ZEDIT.  
I don't know why it is presenting VMSEDT as a
   choice for  GT.M on 
Linux. What happens if you take that choice?
   
   That was from the OpenForum server - I am not
 sure
   what systems they are 
   running under. When I use that it evokes an
 editor
   that looks like this
   
   Select MailMan Menu Option: SML  Send a Message
   
   Subject: testing
   You may enter the text of the message...
  1This is just a test to see what the VMSEDT
   option sets for the editor.
  2
   EDIT Option: ?
 Choose, by first letter, a Word Processing
   Command
 or type a Line Number to edit that line.
   EDIT Option:
   Send mail to: KURSUNOGLU,ISMET//  
  KURSUNOGLU,ISMET
   
   
   
   -- 
   Ismet B. Kursunoglu, MD, FCCP
   Medical Director
   Alaska Clinic, LLC
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Re: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

2005-06-11 Thread Chris Richardson
Joseph;

   One reason you haven't seen benchmark comparisions between the different
relational databases (Oracle, Sybase, DBase (you pick the release),
Informix), the vendors contractually inhibits their users from publishing
the results.  Why would they do that?  Because they know the outcome.  It
ain't good for them.  The Koreans did publish the results of one benchmark
they did in one of the Last MUG Quarterlies.  The results were astounding.
Same hardware, same load, same task took the relationals 6 hours or more to
complete.  MUMPS took something less than one hour to complete.

   Oracle used to be a true relational database and their performance really
sucked.  They hired Irene Chen from SAIC and the CHCS project.  They learned
some of why MUMPS is faster.  Soon after Oracle became a relational database
that mapped to a heirachical database internally.  This gave them a big
boost in performance and some improvement in scalability.  They just didn't
learn the rest of the lesson, how to make it scalable or learn how to build
effective memory cacheing.

  The result is that MUMPS allows for some very important performance
enhancement that other databases haven't learned yet.  One such enhancement
is that most read requests are satisfied in memory cache and these requests
don't have to go out to disk.  So only about 15% of the reads on a loaded
system actually result in a physical read.   This is a phenomenal increase
in performance.  A MUMPS system will speed up with more people on the system
(to a max determined by the available memory and the CPU performance), but
these limits are much higher numbers of users than Oracle or Sybase could
support on the same hardware.

  The bottom line is that there have been attempts to replace MUMPS systems
in the past and the CHCS project for the DoD has been no exception.  They
have been trying to bring up CHCS II to replace the CHCS I system which was
patterned after DHCP, the direct predicessor to VistA.  After 15 years and
many millions of dollars, CHCS II has finally been withdrawn for the last
time and CHCS I still runs the hospitals.  If Oracle or Sybase, or Informix
could do the job, they would be doing it.  Where are they??

  Want an idea of the complexity of the VistA model?  Look up the Entity
Relationship Diagrams.  Then show one of the nearly 100 pdf files to your
favorite Relational Database Guru and watch him blanch at the numbers of
data elements and relationships represented there.  On CHCS there were over
22,000 different data elements in the data dictionary.  In Northern
California, nearly 500,000 patient records are stored in less than 120
gigabytes of disk space.  It would be interesting to see how much space the
same information would take up in the relational model, then pack a lunch,
cause it will take a good long time to traverse that data as a relational
database.

- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 5:22 PM
Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==


 Yes, it will be interesting to see what can be done with Cache.  We're
 looking into the patient screening issue I mentioned previously, for
 example.

 It's interesting, I never heard of this M/VistA being faster than SQL
 relational until I started reading these messages.  I'm keen to see if
 that's true.  I just got done writing an HL7 data access object to talk to
 the HDR which is Oracle.  (Don't ask why I'm talking HL7 to an Oracle
 database, I'm not sure I know myself.)  I will certainly be looking at the
 speed.

 Yes, Oracle is expensive, perhaps prohibitively so.  Is that the only game
 in town, I wonder?  Surely there's something between SQL Server and
Oracle?

 And yes, speed is essential.  It's what makes VistAWeb so popular with
 providers, along with its simple interface.  I'm not gonna be happy if the
 HDR slows it down.

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nancy
 Anthracite
 Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 3:00 PM
 To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
 Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

 It seem to me that you do want is an M database that is reengineered for
 VistA
 because of its speed, easier mantainance and reliability and additionally,
 the ability to do SQL queries on that database.  Seems like Cache delivers
 that and with the right additional software, GT.M can do that as well.

 The Intersystems folks knew what they were doing when they bought up all
of
 those flavors of M.  The Epic folks know what they are doing as well.

 Relational databases are slower and that has long been recognized, and
they
 require a lot more work to maintain and design.  Oracle is probably the
 gorilla in that field and is very expensive and slow.  Yea, maybe you get
 some pretty reports from it, but not likely in real time.

 Tell all of the busy healh care worker why they have to wait when 

Re: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

2005-06-11 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Are you saying that a paper didn't make it through the peer review  
process? If I were a reviewer for a paper of this type, I'd be  
looking for clear definitions of terms like faster, and I'd also  
want to see some theoretical basis for the comparisons being made. My  
personal opinion is that M based systems would fare very well in a  
study such as this, but I would not expect papers relying largely on  
anecdotal evidence or measures such as transactions per second  
(without further qualification) to be rejected.

===
Gregory Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement
 of everyday thinking.  -- Albert Einstein


On Jun 11, 2005, at 7:51 PM, Chris Richardson wrote:


Joseph;

   One reason you haven't seen benchmark comparisions between the  
different

relational databases (Oracle, Sybase, DBase (you pick the release),
Informix), the vendors contractually inhibits their users from  
publishing
the results.  Why would they do that?  Because they know the  
outcome.  It
ain't good for them.  The Koreans did publish the results of one  
benchmark
they did in one of the Last MUG Quarterlies.  The results were  
astounding.
Same hardware, same load, same task took the relationals 6 hours or  
more to

complete.  MUMPS took something less than one hour to complete.

   Oracle used to be a true relational database and their  
performance really
sucked.  They hired Irene Chen from SAIC and the CHCS project.   
They learned
some of why MUMPS is faster.  Soon after Oracle became a relational  
database
that mapped to a heirachical database internally.  This gave them a  
big
boost in performance and some improvement in scalability.  They  
just didn't
learn the rest of the lesson, how to make it scalable or learn how  
to build

effective memory cacheing.

  The result is that MUMPS allows for some very important performance
enhancement that other databases haven't learned yet.  One such  
enhancement
is that most read requests are satisfied in memory cache and these  
requests
don't have to go out to disk.  So only about 15% of the reads on a  
loaded
system actually result in a physical read.   This is a phenomenal  
increase
in performance.  A MUMPS system will speed up with more people on  
the system
(to a max determined by the available memory and the CPU  
performance), but
these limits are much higher numbers of users than Oracle or Sybase  
could

support on the same hardware.

  The bottom line is that there have been attempts to replace MUMPS  
systems
in the past and the CHCS project for the DoD has been no  
exception.  They
have been trying to bring up CHCS II to replace the CHCS I system  
which was
patterned after DHCP, the direct predicessor to VistA.  After 15  
years and
many millions of dollars, CHCS II has finally been withdrawn for  
the last
time and CHCS I still runs the hospitals.  If Oracle or Sybase, or  
Informix

could do the job, they would be doing it.  Where are they??

  Want an idea of the complexity of the VistA model?  Look up the  
Entity
Relationship Diagrams.  Then show one of the nearly 100 pdf files  
to your
favorite Relational Database Guru and watch him blanch at the  
numbers of
data elements and relationships represented there.  On CHCS there  
were over

22,000 different data elements in the data dictionary.  In Northern
California, nearly 500,000 patient records are stored in less than 120
gigabytes of disk space.  It would be interesting to see how much  
space the
same information would take up in the relational model, then pack a  
lunch,
cause it will take a good long time to traverse that data as a  
relational

database.

- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 5:22 PM
Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==



Yes, it will be interesting to see what can be done with Cache.   
We're

looking into the patient screening issue I mentioned previously, for
example.

It's interesting, I never heard of this M/VistA being faster than SQL
relational until I started reading these messages.  I'm keen to  
see if
that's true.  I just got done writing an HL7 data access object to  
talk to

the HDR which is Oracle.  (Don't ask why I'm talking HL7 to an Oracle
database, I'm not sure I know myself.)  I will certainly be  
looking at the

speed.

Yes, Oracle is expensive, perhaps prohibitively so.  Is that the  
only game

in town, I wonder?  Surely there's something between SQL Server and


Oracle?



And yes, speed is essential.  It's what makes VistAWeb so popular  
with
providers, along with its simple interface.  I'm not gonna be  
happy if the

HDR slows it down.

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of  
Nancy

Anthracite
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 3:00 PM
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

It seem 

Re: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

2005-06-11 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Which is faster? An Indy car or a Formula One car? In the  
Indianapolis 500, the leaders speeds will be between 220 and 230 mph.  
Speeds in the Grand Prix del Monaco will not be as high. What  
conclusions can you draw from this?


===
Gregory Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his  
forefathers. -- Benjamin Disraeli




On Jun 11, 2005, at 7:51 PM, Chris Richardson wrote:


Joseph;

   One reason you haven't seen benchmark comparisions between the  
different

relational databases (Oracle, Sybase, DBase (you pick the release),
Informix), the vendors contractually inhibits their users from  
publishing
the results.  Why would they do that?  Because they know the  
outcome.  It
ain't good for them.  The Koreans did publish the results of one  
benchmark
they did in one of the Last MUG Quarterlies.  The results were  
astounding.
Same hardware, same load, same task took the relationals 6 hours or  
more to

complete.  MUMPS took something less than one hour to complete.

   Oracle used to be a true relational database and their  
performance really
sucked.  They hired Irene Chen from SAIC and the CHCS project.   
They learned
some of why MUMPS is faster.  Soon after Oracle became a relational  
database
that mapped to a heirachical database internally.  This gave them a  
big
boost in performance and some improvement in scalability.  They  
just didn't
learn the rest of the lesson, how to make it scalable or learn how  
to build

effective memory cacheing.

  The result is that MUMPS allows for some very important performance
enhancement that other databases haven't learned yet.  One such  
enhancement
is that most read requests are satisfied in memory cache and these  
requests
don't have to go out to disk.  So only about 15% of the reads on a  
loaded
system actually result in a physical read.   This is a phenomenal  
increase
in performance.  A MUMPS system will speed up with more people on  
the system
(to a max determined by the available memory and the CPU  
performance), but
these limits are much higher numbers of users than Oracle or Sybase  
could

support on the same hardware.

  The bottom line is that there have been attempts to replace MUMPS  
systems
in the past and the CHCS project for the DoD has been no  
exception.  They
have been trying to bring up CHCS II to replace the CHCS I system  
which was
patterned after DHCP, the direct predicessor to VistA.  After 15  
years and
many millions of dollars, CHCS II has finally been withdrawn for  
the last
time and CHCS I still runs the hospitals.  If Oracle or Sybase, or  
Informix

could do the job, they would be doing it.  Where are they??

  Want an idea of the complexity of the VistA model?  Look up the  
Entity
Relationship Diagrams.  Then show one of the nearly 100 pdf files  
to your
favorite Relational Database Guru and watch him blanch at the  
numbers of
data elements and relationships represented there.  On CHCS there  
were over

22,000 different data elements in the data dictionary.  In Northern
California, nearly 500,000 patient records are stored in less than 120
gigabytes of disk space.  It would be interesting to see how much  
space the
same information would take up in the relational model, then pack a  
lunch,
cause it will take a good long time to traverse that data as a  
relational

database.

- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 5:22 PM
Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==



Yes, it will be interesting to see what can be done with Cache.   
We're

looking into the patient screening issue I mentioned previously, for
example.

It's interesting, I never heard of this M/VistA being faster than SQL
relational until I started reading these messages.  I'm keen to  
see if
that's true.  I just got done writing an HL7 data access object to  
talk to

the HDR which is Oracle.  (Don't ask why I'm talking HL7 to an Oracle
database, I'm not sure I know myself.)  I will certainly be  
looking at the

speed.

Yes, Oracle is expensive, perhaps prohibitively so.  Is that the  
only game

in town, I wonder?  Surely there's something between SQL Server and


Oracle?



And yes, speed is essential.  It's what makes VistAWeb so popular  
with
providers, along with its simple interface.  I'm not gonna be  
happy if the

HDR slows it down.

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of  
Nancy

Anthracite
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 3:00 PM
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

It seem to me that you do want is an M database that is  
reengineered for

VistA
because of its speed, easier mantainance and reliability and  
additionally,
the ability to do SQL queries on that database.  Seems like Cache  
delivers
that and with the right additional software, GT.M can do that as  

Re: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

2005-06-11 Thread Ruben Safir

 Relational databases are slower and that has long been recognized, and they 
 require a lot more work to maintain and design.  Oracle is probably the 
 gorilla in that field and is very expensive and slow.  Yea, maybe you get 
 some pretty reports from it, but not likely in real time.  
 


Not all of them.  Certainly Oracle and MS SQL are slower.

Ruben



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RE: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

2005-06-11 Thread Ruben Safir

 Yes, Oracle is expensive, perhaps prohibitively so.  Is that the only game
 in town, I wonder?  Surely there's something between SQL Server and Oracle?
 

You mean aside from Postgres, Mysql and others?

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Re: [Hardhats-members] IO file designation for VistA printing to CUPS server

2005-06-11 Thread Ismet Kursunoglu, MD

Thanks very much Mark,

I got this with my first go around -

Heading (S/C): DEVICE LIST//
DEVICE: test  TEST-LINUX-PRINTER  HOME LAN  [BUSY]  ...  RETRY? NO//

Then I realized I got the path wrong to the temp file. Now I am getting 
this error:


Do you want your output QUEUED? NO//   (NO)
lpr: error - unable to print file: client-error-not-found

Do I need to set the POST-CLOSE EXECUTE: ?

Here are configurations of the terminal and device. (I am using an older
Brother HL1240 laser printer- which pretty much emulates a basic HP 
Laser Jet)


*
Select TERMINAL TYPE NAME: P-HPLASER12
  HP laser printer in portrait mode (12 cpi)
ANOTHER ONE:
STANDARD CAPTIONED OUTPUT? Yes//   (Yes)
Include COMPUTED fields:  (N/Y/R/B): NO// BOTH Computed Fields and 
Record Number

 (IEN)

NUMBER: 95  NAME: P-HPLASER12
  SELECTABLE AT SIGN-ON: YESRIGHT MARGIN: 96
  FORM FEED: #  PAGE LENGTH: 64
  BACK SPACE: $C(8)
  OPEN EXECUTE: W 
*27,E,*27,s0C,*27,k10H,*27,10o7.64c69p2e67F,*27,a

196M
  CLOSE EXECUTE: W *27,E U IO K IO(1,IO) C IO ZSYSTEM lpr -r -l -P 
_ION_ _PRINTER NAME: HL1240   ASK DEVICE TYPE AT SIGN-ON: 
YES, ASK

IO
  DESCRIPTION: HP laser printer in portrait mode (12 cpi)



Select DEVICE NAME: HL1240  TEST-LINUX-PRINTERHOME LAN 
/home/ibk/t/HL1240.TMP

ANOTHER ONE:
STANDARD CAPTIONED OUTPUT? Yes//   (Yes)
Include COMPUTED fields:  (N/Y/R/B): NO// BOTH Computed Fields and 
Record Number

 (IEN)

NUMBER: 42  NAME: TEST-LINUX-PRINTER
  $I: /home/ibk/t/HL1240.TMPASK DEVICE: NO
  ASK PARAMETERS: NOSIGN-ON/SYSTEM DEVICE: NO
  QUEUING: ALLOWED  LOCATION OF TERMINAL: HOME LAN
  LOCAL SYNONYM: HL1240 ASK HOST FILE: NO
  ASK HFS I/O OPERATION: NO FORM CURRENTLY MOUNTED: Plain paper
MNEMONIC: HL1240
  PRE-OPEN EXECUTE: S IO=$P(IO,.)_._$J_$P($H,,,2)_._$P(IO,.,2)
  SUBTYPE: P-HPLASER12  USE TIMEOUT ON OPENS: NO
  TYPE: TERMINAL
  PRINT SERVER NAME OR ADDRESS: 192.168.0.105
  REMOTE PRINTER NAME: HL1240   ASK DEVICE TYPE AT SIGN-ON: 
YES, ASK

*

I see the print jobs now writing out to the temp file /home/ibk/t

-rw-r--r--   1 ibk ibk  849 Jun 11 21:34 HL1240.291477692.TMP
-rw-r--r--   1 ibk ibk  849 Jun 11 21:37 HL1240.291477848.TMP
-rw-r--r--   1 ibk ibk  849 Jun 11 21:38 HL1240.291477887.TMP
-rw-r--r--   1 ibk ibk  849 Jun 11 21:39 HL1240.291477958.TMP
-rw-r--r--   1 ibk ibk0 Jun 11 21:29 HL1240.TMP


The server log /var/log/cups shows

#tail -f access_log

192.168.0.100 - - [11/Jun/2005:22:03:43 -0700] POST / HTTP/1.1 200 137
192.168.0.100 - - [11/Jun/2005:22:03:43 -0700] POST / HTTP/1.1 200 137
192.168.0.100 - - [11/Jun/2005:22:03:43 -0700] POST / HTTP/1.1 200 77
192.168.0.100 - - [11/Jun/2005:22:03:43 -0700] POST / HTTP/1.1 200 124
192.168.0.100 - - [11/Jun/2005:22:03:43 -0700] POST / HTTP/1.1 200 124

Corresponding to submitting the print job.

Thanks for any advice. And thanks to all of you on the list and beyond 
for your patience, fantastic discussions/observations and hard work.


MPA wrote:


I have been using the following settings in the device and terminal 
types. I have printed to multiple printers and sent multiple 
labels/prescriptions to an single printer over a very short period of 
time. It has not failed me yet, Kevin is correct the key is in the 
PRE-OPEN EXECUTE, I just set IO equal to $I with a piece in the middle 
consisting of $J(job) and the second peice of $H(time) this give the 
TEMP file its own unique name.


You do not have th have the printer name in the temporary file just 
SOMETHING.TMP, you need the format SOMETHING.TMP because the PRE-OPEN 
EXECUTE in the DEVICE does a $P looking for a ..  You also need to 
have the DEVICE Name equal to the Linux name for the printer, this is 
the ION variable so lpr know what printer to use. I do suggest leaving 
the TEMP file name the same as the device name so if you have a failure 
you at least know the device name that failed. It is the CLOSE EXECUTE 
in the TERMINAL TYPE that triggers the lpr to print.


Let me know if this works.

Mark


Select TERMINAL TYPE NAME: P-HPMES
ANOTHER ONE:
STANDARD CAPTIONED OUTPUT? Yes//   (Yes)
Include COMPUTED fields:  (N/Y/R/B): NO// BOTH Computed Fields and 
Record Number

(IEN)

NUMBER: 198 NAME: P-HPMES
RIGHT MARGIN: 80  FORM FEED: #
PAGE LENGTH: 64   BACK SPACE: $C(8)
OPEN EXECUTE: W *27,E,*27,k2G
CLOSE EXECUTE: W *27,E U IO K IO(1,IO) C IO ZSYSTEM lpr -r -l -P 
_ION_ _IO




Attached below are the DEVICE's for reference.

OUTPUT FROM WHAT FILE: TERMINAL TYPE// DEVICE
Select DEVICE NAME: HP2200  BASEMENT /home/pharmacy/t/HP2200.TMP
ANOTHER ONE: HP4050  OFFICE /home/pharmacy/t/HP4050.TMP
ANOTHER ONE:
STANDARD CAPTIONED OUTPUT? Yes//   (Yes)
Include COMPUTED fields:  (N/Y/R/B): NO// BOTH 

Re: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

2005-06-11 Thread Nancy Anthracite
Actually I think the VA has plans to be able to use any number of SQL 
databases when they are done with this rehosting, but I doubt that any SQL 
database will beat the speed of M.  After all, it was specifically designed 
for use in this setting.  Relational databases are going to be better for 
some things, but I don't think this setting is one of them.

On Sunday 12 June 2005 12:23 am, Ruben Safir wrote:
  Yes, Oracle is expensive, perhaps prohibitively so.  Is that the only
  game in town, I wonder?  Surely there's something between SQL Server and
  Oracle?

 You mean aside from Postgres, Mysql and others?

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Re: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

2005-06-11 Thread Gregory Woodhouse

I use MySQL and am pretty happy with it.

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On Jun 11, 2005, at 9:23 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:




Yes, Oracle is expensive, perhaps prohibitively so.  Is that the  
only game
in town, I wonder?  Surely there's something between SQL Server  
and Oracle?





You mean aside from Postgres, Mysql and others?

Ruben




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