AccessConversion

Initially you will want to work in the gombemi_raw database to convert the data with minimal data integrity rules. Later you can work in gombemi_test to convert with data integrity rules in place and finally in gombemi to do the final conversion.

The general outline is as follows:

• Import all the support (lookup) tables
• Import the BIOGRAPHY_DATA table
• Export the following tables from Access as csv files:
  • follow
  • follow_1_minute
  • follow_1_minute_infant
  • follow_1_minute_mother
  • follow_1_minute_sibling
  • follow_5_minute
  • follow_5_minute_group
• Delete all rows from the following tables in the conversion schema (if necessary), in the following order:
  • follow_5_minute_group
  • follow_5_minute
  • follow_1_minute_sibling
  • follow_1_minute_mother
  • follow_1_minute_infant
  • follow_1_minute
  • follow_1_minute
• Import the Access csv files into their corresponding tables in the conversion schema. Import in order of creation as listed above.
• Prepare the Access data for conversion by running prepare_data() as follows:
  select prepare_data();
• Use convert_access() to convert a desired time period, the dates are inclusive. Repeat as necessary with different time periods. If you get an error the database is unchanged.
  select convert_access('1990-01-01', '1990-12-31');
• Fix errors in the data and repeat.