On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 01:05:34AM -0600, Bob Hartung wrote:
> Hello,
> I need to begin picking a database fora project. The
> number of choices is now staggering. Generally, I will have
> about 15,000-20,000 patients and about 35,000 procedures
> entered per year. I need to be able to run this over an
> internet between three institutions [not necessarily
> friendly to one another but my group provides services at
> all three] and I am confused where to go on the Linux side.
> My background in is FoxPro then FP for Windows and then
> Visual FoxPro.
> My choices are:
> Oracle 8i with WebDB Probably overkill
> Informix
> Sybase
> MySQL
> PostGreSQL
>
> I prefer a RDBMS with referential integrity, persistent
> relationships etc. Suggestions on the best place to start
> reading/experimenting appreciated. If there is a better
> site to post this please let me know. I don't want to bog
> this list down unnecessarily.
>
I'd probably not go with Oracle8i unless you really need
whatever feature it has that the others don't provide (and
you can afford the costs).
Similar projects to yours would be www.freemed.org, otherwise
apache+mysql+php - I suspect there'll be a learning curve.
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