[Babase] Re: next conversion
Karl O. Pinc
kop at meme.com
Wed May 23 10:01:03 EDT 2007
On 05/23/2007 08:32:58 AM, kfenn wrote:
>
> Can it really be that we have only 9 errors? After I left work, the
> thought occurred to me that I hadn't input any of the new births into
> fake_cycgaps, but I wasn't sure if these were being automatically
> generated somehow....? Or did you realize I needed them and put them
> in?
You only need the fake_cycgaps if there are CYCPOINTS after the
birth. If data goes in "in timewise order", as it happens in
real life, this is "automatically prevented".
So, in a 6 month interval
I'd only expect problems for births that occur early in the
interval, where the female "has time" to resume cycling.
If you update cycles month-by-month, as you would when updating the
db under normal circumstances, you don't need fake cycgaps _ever_
if you input births as you get to the birth month. This
is probably a good input strategy. It beats getting an
error when entering a birth and having to put in a fake gap,
add the birth, and then take out the fake gap. Although
there's not that many births, and fewer where you'd get an
error because of the 6 month input interval.
Karl <kop at meme.com>
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