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1998-11-06

nugget [06-Nov-1998 @ 01:29]

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 01:29 +00:00

:: 06-Nov-1998 01:39 (Friday) ::

OK, Here’s the deal…

I’ve finished re-running the 4-Nov logfiles and the numbers came in
higher then they did previously, so that much looks really good. Those
of you who were missing blocks should now have a more appropriate count
for 4-Nov.

However, there is still the issue of the doubled 3-Nov data. This
seems to just happen from time to time, generally around the beginning
of a month, and I’m at a loss as to how it happens. Fortunately, it’s
a pretty fast fix as I do not need to re-run the day’s stats to correct
it. I just grab all the tot_team records for that day, move them to a
temp table, dedupe, and stick them back in. Doesn’t take too long at
all.

That’s what I’m doing now, and expect for it to wrap in the next 15
minutes or so. However, if all goes smoothly that still puts the
5-Nov-1998 stats run starting at 02:00 so stats will definitely be a
couple hours late this evening.

Just bear with me, I’m banging the numbers into shape and we should be
back to normal by morning.

On an entirely unrelated note, I’ve been fiddling with perl lately
and I’ve hacked together what is probably the single-most useless
waste of time I’ve coded in quite some time.

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http://miata.hfdirect.com/~nugget/cdinfo.cgi (at work)