[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.