Re: [Gnumed-devel] LDAP vs. SQL - RT comments

[Horst Herb]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 08:37, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> Have an XML-RPC server "contacts". This server spans possibly
> several sources: a) The service "administration" which includes
> the practice's configuration, eg. the practices contacts
> database. This is the schema we control and use for

XML-RPC ervice for contacts, yes. 
But else "contacts" belongs firmly and completely into the demographic 
database. There is not only no need for a separate "contacts" database, it 
would also violate all principles of good database design since it would be 
mostly duplication / redundancy.

Horst