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A Pet Medical Records Management System is a crucial tool for any veterinary services provider. It helps track the medical history, vaccination records, and other important data of every pet that visits the clinic.
Understanding the Problem
To be successful in designing this management system, you need to understand the data you will work with. Typically, a pet’s medical record will contain the pet’s id, name, species,breed,date of birth, owner’s information, medical history and a list of vaccinations they’ve taken.
Creating Your Tables
To get started, we will create tables for pets, owners and the medical records.”””
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CREATE TABLE Owners ( ownerID INT PRIMARY KEY, firstName VARCHAR(100), lastName VARCHAR(100), contactNumber VARCHAR(15), ); CREATE TABLE Pets ( petID INT PRIMARY KEY, ownerID INT, petName VARCHAR(100), species VARCHAR(50), breed VARCHAR(50), dateOfBirth DATE, FOREIGN KEY(ownerID) REFERENCES Owners(ownerID) ); CREATE TABLE MedicalRecords ( recordID INT PRIMARY KEY, petID INT, visitDate DATE, diagnosis VARCHAR(MAX), medication VARCHAR(MAX), nextVisit DATE, FOREIGN KEY(petID) REFERENCES Pets(petID) ); |
These tables will form the basis of our management system.
Retrieving Data
Next, we’ll look at how to retrieve data from these tables. If we want to get a list of all pets and their owner’s contact number, we can use JOIN.
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SELECT Pets.petName, Owners.contactNumber FROM Pets JOIN Owners ON Pets.ownerID = Owners.ownerID; |
Managing Medical Records
If you want to insert a new medical record for a pet, you can use the INSERT INTO statement.
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INSERT INTO MedicalRecords VALUES (1, 1, '2022-01-04', 'Common Cold', 'Antibiotics', '2022-02-01'); |
Summary
By properly designing your tables and understanding the data you are working with, you can use SQL to effectively manage pet medical records. This blog post provides a basic introduction to this, and there is much more to learn about SQL to further improve your database management system.