[Babase] Storing male mature dates in the database
Karl O. Pinc
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:30:58 -0600
Susan,
After meeting with folks here the concensus is that
it's a bad idea to store "we're sure they're mature
by this date" male maturity dates in a different
table from the "we watched these males reach
maturity" mature dates. For lots of reasons,
mostly having to do with difficulty writing
queries to find all the adults if we have 2 tables, we think they
should go in the same table and be distinguished
by a 'kind of maturity date' flag.
However, we have to convince you before going forward.
Karl <kop@meme.com>
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