On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 14:17 +0300, Henrik K wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 11:38:50AM +0100, Martin Gregorie wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 14:00 -0500, Matthew Kitchin (public/usenet) > > wrote: > > > Thanks. We are looking at roughly 70,000 names and always growing. If I > > > gave it sufficient hardware, would you expect that to be practical, or > > > is that totally ridiculous? Any options for a database look up here? > > > > > I'd use a plugin that simply queries the database plus a rule to > > activate the plugin by calling its eval() method and sets the score if > > the rule fires. > > Queries database for what? I guess you didn't read the thread fully. :-) > Queries the patient data DB for patient names - obviously. I made the offer because I found it useful to be able to modify an existing plugin that queried a database. Exactly what the SQL query does in largely irrelevant. I found that the difficult bit was working out to how to configure the plugin to access my database. Constructing the query and interpreting its result were relatively easy.
Martin
