Add note about ehrQL to federation page

opensafely · Nov 27, 2023 · c914f46 · c914f46
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 The researcher wrote the code as a **single codebase**. As with all OpenSAFELY activity, this is composed of small, cross-backend components called *actions*.
 
-The first action they wrote extracts a dataset using an [OpenSAFELY study definition](study-def.md)—a uniform way of extracting variables from very different databases.  For example, this section of the study definition creates a variable that indicates when a patient was most recently recorded as having severe obesity:
+The first action they wrote extracts a dataset using an [OpenSAFELY study definition](study-def.md)—a uniform way of extracting variables from very different databases.
+(Note that this example uses cohort-extractor, which has been deprecated in favour of [ehrQL](/ehrql/).
+However, this doesn't change the approach to federation.)
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+For example, this section of the study definition creates a variable that indicates when a patient was most recently recorded as having severe obesity:
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 ```python