Re: surrogate key or not?

From: Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon(at)thenilgiris(dot)com>
To: Karsten Hilbert <Karsten(dot)Hilbert(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: surrogate key or not?
Date: 2004-07-27 06:03:50
Message-ID: 04072711335024.01150@thenilgiris.com
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On Tuesday 27 July 2004 02:04 am, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> One thing we ARE looking for in our records is the ability to
> find groups of patients by arbitrary criteria since one day
> I'll have to find all my patients whose father took a statine,
> whose second-born child suffered a bout of neutropenia 2 weeks
> after birth and who started being on the pill at age 14.
> Because they'll have a 3fold increased risk of lung embolus.
> Unless monitored for clotting factors every 6 months. Which I
> will have to do from now on. Get my point ? :-)

couldnt you do something like, let them write the 'long flaky text', and at
the same time mark a certain number of key words or key phrases which could
be stored and retrieved?

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kg

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