On 24/05/2006, at 4:17 PM, Greg Twyford wrote:
None of this is in contravention of the two decent points raised
earlier:
1. Downloaders should be installed on client machines or a "sub-
server".
2. A universal downloader would be ideal.
Yep, but you or I won't have much say over that as it's between the
practice and their path. providers.
As pointed out by Andrew, we should have a say on 1 if we are paid to
manage the system. 2 will require a concerted effort by many doctors.
The downloaders typically drop the results into a folder, wherever.
Any database system can write to the database from a workstation.
MD3 appears faster from a client, with it's sample database,
because all the processing is done on the server, and only commands
and display of resulting data goes across the LAN. MS SQL might be
more efficient than FoxPro as well, who knows.
Despite it's shortcomings, MSSQL is much more efficient (in a
client / server environment) than Foxpro, not that MDW2 is Foxpro,
but the principle is the same.
Peter.
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