[Babase] Ranks data errors
Daphne A Onderdonk (donderdo@Princeton.EDU)
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Fri, 04 Feb 2005 13:31:58 -0500
> IIRC I corrected a serious problem in the ranker program after it
> had been used for 6 months -- from 13/3/03 to 15/9/03. The comment
> says that the bug was that the ranker was deleting ranks of the
> wrong ranktype. Does anybody recall anything
> more? Could these data errors be leftover from that or from
> whatever was done to recover the deleted data? I recall
> troubles finding a backup from which to recover.
I'm pretty sure this isn't the source of the problems that Susan is talking about. The problem Karl is talking about here did occur with the transition to having the different ranktypes - when a new ranktype was updated into the Ranks table, it would delete any other ranktypes for that group that month. Karl fixed the program, and we were able to recover the table from the correct time period. The only problem this would leave is missing data, which is doesn't sound like is the case.
Daphne