by Graham | Apr 4, 2017 | E-Quip AM, New Features, New Releases, What's New
Here’s an update on what’s in version 3.6.0. We plan to start building the release today (4th April, 2017). Reporting Changes New Man-Hours Report A new report has been added to the Quick Report feature. The report shows a row for each person, with each... by Sarah Brassington | Feb 17, 2017 | News
e-Quip, our Asset Management Software is being used by more than 80 Hospitals up and down the country and we are committed to supporting each and every one of you. Over the past year or two e-Quip has been growing from strength to strength, bringing you more and more... by Graham | Feb 10, 2017 | Filters
We have recently had a couple of requests for a way of copying equipment serial numbers from a spreadsheet into an e-Quip filter. Surprisingly, this is very easy to do, it just needs a little bit of knowledge about Excel formulae. Let’s suppose that you have a... by Graham | Jan 27, 2017 | E-Quip AM, Miscellaneous
If you haven’t already, it is strongly recommended that you read this blog article about groups & permissions before you look into group footprints. Just to recap, a footprint defines the parts of the database that a group of users can see. The “Hospital A”... by Graham | Jan 27, 2017 | Miscellaneous
You may have come across the series of articles about configuring e-Quip using the Role Manager. This is a really big subject and even when tackled in small chunks the articles are tending to become long which might give the impression that this is more complex than... by Graham | Jan 5, 2017 | A Developer's Day
At last! My original intention was to write an article about the difference between relational calculus and relational algebra. In order to get here we needed to see what databases looked like before the relational model and what the relational model actually means.... by Graham | Jan 5, 2017 | A Developer's Day
The first part of this article discussed what databases looked like before Codd’s seminal paper in 1969 introduced the relation model. This post describes what the relational model actually is. By the way, the last article gave some examples from non-relational... by Graham | Jan 5, 2017 | A Developer's Day, E-Quip AM
The other day I came across a forum on the web and spotted a post by someone who wanted to know the difference between relational calculus and relational algebra. As happens so often on the web, all of the responses were written by people who had virtually no idea... by Graham | Jan 4, 2017 | A Developer's Day
Everyone these days has heard of Alan Turing, the father of computer science, the man who cracked the Enigma code and the eponymous “inventor” of both Turing Machines and the Turing Test. Science fiction tends to conflate the two, but they are... by Graham | Dec 29, 2016 | New Features
Bulk Update is an extremely useful utility and has some clever features that you might not be aware of. I’ll try to post a separate article about these later today but this post is about one of the limitations of bulk update. As you almost certainly know, bulk...