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The MED stands for management of external data, nothing to do with medical data. It’s actually a chapter in the ISO/ANSI SQL specification.
by sixdimensional 2y ago
The MED stands for management of external data, nothing to do with medical data.
It’s actually a chapter in the ISO/ANSI SQL specification.
- solidsnack9000 2y agoMy understanding from reading the literature around SQL/MED and related technologies is that they were, indeed, inspired by data management problems in medicine. The use cases are like those I outlined -- we can't move the data from this physical location, but we want to allow other sites to query it. As a result, a specification was added, as part of ISO/ANSI SQL specification process. The MED term is an acronym and not a shortening of "medical".
- sixdimensional 2y agoThat's quite interesting, would you be willing to share any sources? I wouldn't be surprised if the term SQL/MED had been spoken in healthcare/medicine circles (I worked in that industry before). That said, it's the first time I've ever seen anyone connect the term/concept specifically to medicine as the driver for the term. I'm actually someone who has gone deep down the SQL rabbit hole (I worked for a company that built a data federation platform previously), I'd be interested to read more if you can share. My apologies, I thought the confusion of the acronym simple came from the "MED" part, which as I mentioned, stands for "management of external data". In that respect we are in complete agreement :) EDIT: Perhaps you might be referring to something like this paper about data federation in general? https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=caa80deb428540752173ea998f1efc68df85ac98 https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d...