[Babase] conversion run?

Jeanne Altmann altj at Princeton.EDU
Thu Jun 7 14:42:14 EDT 2007


Sounds good; then we will be ready to be totally in 2.0 won't we?
Hooray,
jeanne 

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From: babase-bounces at eeblistserv.princeton.edu
[mailto:babase-bounces at eeblistserv.princeton.edu] On Behalf Of Lacey
Maryott
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 1:48 PM
To: The Baboon Database Project
Subject: Re: [Babase] conversion run?

YAY!!!! no errors!!! :-D  Thats really great.  In that case, shall I go
ahead and add in the other years today and tomorrow (through 88)?

Lacey

Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>
> On 06/07/2007 11:42:21 AM, Lacey Maryott wrote:
>> Hey Karl,
>>   I was wondering if you know why the conversion has taken 15+ hours 
>> to run, does something seem to be VERY wrong, or is it just the new 
>> census data slowing it down :-\
>
> Long contiguous series of "old style" census rows, that do not begin 
> when the individual first appears, take a long time to interpolate.  I

> did not bother optimizing for this case because I figured it wouldn't 
> matter.  (And I'm not sure exactly what's possible.  Trouble is that a

> whole lot of uninterpolating and interpolating and destruction and 
> creation of MEMBERS rows needs to go on.)  As you put more "real" 
> census rows in and reduce the "block" where there's just "old" census 
> rows I'd expect the interpolation to speed up some.
>
> Come time to do this in the new system you might find things will go 
> faster if you, for instance, begin by putting the "new style" census 
> rows in at the "endpoints", say the first and last month of the year, 
> and then "fill-in" the middle months.
>
>
>    It's making me scared there are
>> going to be a ton of errors.. haha
>
> So far no errors and it should be done in a few minutes.
>
> There.  Done.  No errors.
>
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
> Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
>                  -- Robert A. Heinlein
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Lacey Maryott
Alberts Lab
Department of Biology
Duke University
ph: 919-660-7306
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Lacey.Maryott at duke.edu 

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