[Babase] Re: fecal tables
kfenn
kfenn at princeton.edu
Tue Apr 10 09:51:41 EDT 2007
Oh, yeah...the attachment
Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>
> On 04/09/2007 03:46:30 PM, kfenn wrote:
>> Hi Karl,
>>
>> I thought I send you an email about updating fecal tables for
>> Laurence in the online babase....but I can't seem to find it in my
>> SENT box. I'm thinking I did something weird and never sent it.
>> Did you get anything like that from me last week...? If not, I will
>> pose the question again here...
>
> I don't recall anything.
>
>>
>> How difficult is it to add some tables to babase that are Laurence
>> has maintained in FoxPro....there are two tables and they don't link
>> to anything but themselves, I think.
>
> There's some way to export them out of foxpro as text, but I forget
> the details. Try looking up SELECT INTO in the foxpro docs?
> You'll want either tab delimited or csv data, not just
> sql's SELECT output. Or maybe there's some other foxpro
> command, like COPY?
>
> I can also convert dbf to text on papio, but I'd prefer to
> convert _all_ the dbf's to text in one huge run than to work
> piecemeal.
>
> If you want them to be part of the official babase then I'd like
> to look at the table layout, document it, etc. If all you want
> is access from papio then you can either put the tables into
> the sandbox schema yourself or I can make a schema just for
> the two tables. The latter is probably best. IIRC, Leah asked
> me to do the same for some of Susan's data and we created
> several schema for various hunks of data.
>
> We should really:
>
> Document those schema in the wiki.
>
> Show you and Lacey how to use your babase_admin superpowers
> to make schema for cases like this. Oh, and then
> document that on the wiki. :-)
>
> If it's just Laurance's stuff you can help her make tables
> in her own schema.
>
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
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