[Babase] UPLOAD pregs error

kfenn kfenn at princeton.edu
Fri Jan 4 16:12:39 EST 2008


>
> I swear at one point during the conversion we had a grand plan to
> cover this.
>
> Might it have been:
> Insert new individuals without a pid?
> Do census
> Do maturedates
> Do cycles
> Do pregs.  Insert fake gaps if a preg has a resume but
>   is not yet referenced in biograph.  (This should be
>   a rare occurence.)
> Put pids into new individuals in biograph.
> Remove fake gaps, if any.
>
> ?
>
> Fake gaps arn't needed if the time periods are short enough.
> In other words, if you run through the whole list with
> only a week or a month of data rather than 6 months or
> a year.
> I think 6 months is short enough, but you could also
> cycle through a month at a time and then I don't know
> that the fake gap issue would ever come up.  Time will
> tell.
>
>
> With short time intervals you also don't need
> to go back and put in the pids later.
>
> That was something like what I came up with for the
> conversion, which dealt with exactly the same issues.
> At the time I thought I wrote stuff regarding this.
>
> You may be able to come up with a better approach.
> The "cycle" breaks if the time intervals entered are
> small enough.  When data goes in in a strictly chronological
> order, across all tables, then there's no issues at all.
> Obviously, we don't enter data that way.  Mostly, I think
> it's the cycles that need 'big chunks' of data entry,
> because they need review over time so particular dates
> can be picked.
>

I look around for something marked "grand plan"  and keep trying 
different strategies...your suggestions are appreciated.

Obviously it can be done.... I just need to find some some eye of newt 
and a few dead chickens....


Tabby

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