Subject:
|
Re: pointer to db ascii files
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.admin.database
|
Date:
|
Fri, 23 Feb 2001 04:04:30 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
410 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.admin.database, Remy Evard writes:
> I'm using the DB to seed my own collection database. Very, very useful.
> Thanks. I'll have a number of updates to post once I spend an evening
> verifying them.
>
> A couple of suggestions, though.
>
> You used to have a pointer to the database files in tab-separated ASCII
> files, back before the news system facelift. Do you still intend to have a
> pointer to those? If so, I can't find it.
Oh, sorry, ya, they're at <http://www.lugnet.com/pause/lists.html>. I
should move them over to guide.lugnet.com.
> Second suggestion - in the DB, you often have part counts like this: "152?".
> I've found it useful to split those two pieces of data:
> part count: 152
> part count confidence: N
> [...]
> This may be useful for other fields in the DB as well.
Cool, ya, I also want it to track the origin of the info more cleanly --
i.e., whether it came from an actual box first-hand, a photo or scan of a
box, a picture of a box in a catalog, or in a S@H catalog, or from the LEGO
website, or from counting by hand, or from a guesstimate, etc.
--Todd
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | pointer to db ascii files
|
| I'm using the DB to seed my own collection database. Very, very useful. Thanks. I'll have a number of updates to post once I spend an evening verifying them. A couple of suggestions, though. You used to have a pointer to the database files in (...) (24 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.database)
|
2 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
Active threads in Database
|
|
|
|
|
|
