Practice have RAT system on 2 terminals within the Practice. On GP terminal the RAT system is pointing to a database on the main server labelled Rat 2. On the Practice Nurse terminal the system is pointing to a database on the main server labelled RAT Version 3.

Obviously the 2 machines need to be pointing to the 1 database on the main server. How do we go about amalgamating these 2 into 1. The Practice Nurse machine is the more up-to-date in relation to patients tested on site while the GP machine is the more up-to-date for patients tested in the community. As such simply cancelling 1 database and running with the other is not a viable option. Please advise.

Dear Lynda
There is no method of merging the RAT databases.
There would be 'Primary key' conflicts.
i.e., patients in the different databases have the same references
e.g. patient 26 will have previous INRs (an other data) referenced under the number 26, but there would be another patient 26 in the other database
So appending data is quite complicated.
So sorry about that.
The only why is to manually enter new patient data

Colm Rafferty

See previous message - data from incorrect database on main server transferred across to correct database on main server and incorrect one deleted so that we have only one database in operation. The RAT software was then uninstalled and reinstalled from CD on the terminal which had been pointing to incorrect database. On reinstallation however we are getting a message saying we need to register for use of RAT because 120 day trial period is expired. Practice is already registered so presumably this is incorrect. The "Change Network Database" option on this 2nd machine won't let me alter the default INR.mdb to point to the correct database on our main server until this registration issue is resolved.

Please advise on how we instruct a 2nd terminal that Practice is already registered. I have tried the Register RAT option within the Help feature with no sucess. It asks for "Name" and Reg #". As we understand it this should be "Dr Etherson" and "1359" but it is not accepting this.

Dear Lynda
I have sent your registation details to your email address
Regards
Colm Rafferty