[Babase] MEMBERS Comparison - Final Summary

Catherine Markham babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:41:15 -0400


Karl O. Pinc wrote:

> 
> On 09/30/2005 12:58:37 PM, Catherine Markham wrote:
> 
>> Questions:
>>
>> 1.  Several individuals had only rows in the new MEMBERS table  
>> despite having no rows in CENSUS.  These individuals include: A21,  
>> B11, CS1*, D13*, DM1*, MN1*, MT5*, NZ5*, R14, RH9, and UT4*.
>>
>> All of the ones with asterisks were on my list of conversion errors  
>> from Leah (corrections have been discussed, but I still need to make  
>> the changes).  I'm not sure what is up with the others, though - I'll  
>> have to look into them more carefully.  What the program is doing in  
>> all cases is giving a single row for the baboon's birth in MEMBERS,  
>> despite there being no data in CENSUS.  The only exception is A21  
>> because this is the only individual in the list who also has a death  
>> date - in this case, there are rows from birth through death in  
>> MEMBERS, again without any info in CENSUS.  All of this seems  
>> logical, even if it is a bit weird to have MEMBERS entries when  
>> nothing is listed in CENSUS.  Karl, am I working through this one  right?
> 
> 
> Yes.  According to the rules it's supposed to do this.  And I think
> we want it to, right?

Yeah, I vote we want it to work like this.  It just seemed a bit odd at 
first, but I think the logic is good.