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Re: [Gnumed-devel] My Simple Brain - Data Storage - FH+Habits
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Ian Haywood |
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] My Simple Brain - Data Storage - FH+Habits |
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Thu, 25 Nov 2004 23:25:08 -0500 |
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On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 08:47:42AM +1100, Richard Terry wrote:
> Why is having clinical data in multiple separate tables a problem. Surely
> that
It's not, we do have separate tables. We *also* have an single ancestor table
which allows us to search across all the clinical tables at once. (This
concept does not exist in MS-Access)
Sure we could do a massive join across all the tables, but on postgres
that would be unworkably slow.
Ian
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