[Babase] conference call update
Susan Alberts
alberts at duke.edu
Thu May 3 10:07:00 EDT 2007
On May 2, 2007, at 4:30 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>
> On 05/02/2007 12:19:29 PM, kfenn wrote:
>
>> Once the above changes/fixes occur, we have one more speedbump
>> with FoxPro before we can move exclusively to PPA. The new files
>> of "old" census data that Jen Foreman has entered is in dbf form.
>> Karl says trying to do an upload of this into PPA is not going
>> to be easy....the upload is best done in FoxPro. I agree, but I
>> can forsee that this update may generate a substantial number of
>> new errors when we run through another conversion given that such
>> a large bulk of data is replacing old data.
>
> The problem is in the new system's requirement that everything
> be consistent all the time. Simply deleting all the "old style"
> census rows in preparation for replacing them with the actual
> census data probably won't be allowed. When the old rows are deleted
> that will probably take individuals out of groups that other
> parts of the database expect them to be in.
OK thanks for this. I would like to talk about other options that
will move us past foxpro quickly. For instance, it seems to me that
any file created in foxpro should be infinitely translatable to other
file formats; can we just "export" these files into some form that
PPA can handle, and then holding off on uploading until all the data
are entered? I think that I don't completely understand all the
issues, so maybe a quick phone call is in order. I will try to call
you later today to talk about this Karl. In the interests of time
let's not try to do a whole conference call just yet, let's you and
me explore options.
Susan
>
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Susan Alberts, Dept. Biology, Duke University, Durham NC 27708. Phone
919-660-7272, Fax 919-660-7293. alberts at duke.edu
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