[Babase] Changing Immigrant Male Census Data

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Thu Nov 19 15:52:24 EST 2009


On 11/19/2009 02:19:55 PM, Lacey Maryott Roerish wrote:
> So I am now finding that deleting a year's worth of census rows takes
> between 9-20 minutes... it seems that I have it figured out, and it
> doesn't
> seem to break anything.
> 
> At what point should I feel confident about moving out of test and
> making
> these changes in babase? I definitely don't want to run this whole
> thing on
> 25 males in test just to turn around and repeat it in babase...

I think now's the time.  It works like we think it does.

> 
> Should I test 1 year prior to entry for every male and just make sure
> we
> don't get any weird errors? They are all Matgrp 9... so there is no
> reason
> they should be in any data prior to their entry dates...

No.  If we get weird errors (and we shouldn't expect to get
them here any more than anywhere else) we'll fix them when
it happens.


Karl <kop at meme.com>
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