[Babase] Census Data 1981-1988 in Babase

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Fri Aug 29 16:04:58 EDT 2008


On 08/29/2008 02:51:17 PM, Lacey Maryott wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>     As I was reviewing some 1980's records in census with Susan, we  
> found that my replacement last summer of old census data with real  
> census data was not a complete replacement. There are still some data  
> with origin 'S' (from Susan's data) that place individuals in grp  
> 9.00 for certain periods. I did not delete group 9's before doing my  
> upload as that would have affected not only Alto's group, but Hook's  
> who I was not, at that time, updating. When these 'S' rows occurred,  
> interpolation of the newly input census data was stopped as per the  
> rules of the database, so no interpolated data will appear for those  
> times.  However, following the period when the animal was in group 9,  
> the newer data, informed by actual censuses will resume as will  
> interpolation.
>    In terms of resolving the problem, I am going to make it a  
> priority to get the Hook's Census data ready for upload and possibly  
> starting from scratch with uploading both Hook's and the Alto's data.  
> After getting rid of all old, non-interpolating data types. This way  
> all of those non-interpolating rows will disappear in most cases.   
> This will involve some talking with Karl, and some thought,but this  
> change will be made as soon as possible.

If you have the "right" rows in the database you should be able
to simply delete the "wrong" rows and everything will sort itself
out.  E.g. delete all the 'S' rows from group 1.0 from date X
through date Y to get rid of the "wrong" rows.  If you're
missing some "right" rows, that's ok too.  Just add them.

Or we can have a phone call one of these days.

Karl <kop at meme.com>
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