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This tip is a shout-out to all the reporting folks still working with MEDITECH C/S or Magic from the DR! However, the concepts we’re going to explore apply to 6.x and Expanse as well as any other system where you need to group sets of values and…
You’re only as strong as your weakest… passwords? Security experts revealed that as cybercriminals continue to develop better tools for cracking passwords, the strength of your password doesn’t really matter. Instead, they boast the success of multi-factor authentication (MFA) as a way to add additional “security checkpoints”…
Every so often we need to build a report with a number of complicated calculations that we need to perform at the detail, group or summary level in the report. Maybe we need to calculate some aggregates, then do calculations on the aggregates. Like creating percentage markers…
Searching and filtering free text data can be a problem due to human error. Typos, transposed characters and even data entry into the wrong field present a challenge when trying to report on the data. In a SQL query we can use LIKE and wildcards to try…
Because SourceID is part of the primary key in virtually all MEDITECH Data Repository tables, it is good practice to include SourceID as the first column all indexes, include it in all joins and to identify SourceID in the WHERE clause of the query. In most cases…
