[theforum] Launch deadline
John Handelaar
john at userfrenzy.com
Mon Apr 4 07:00:56 CDT 2005
Martin Burns wrote:
> As I understand it, we need John to take part in that, but he's tied up
> for the next 48 hours.
Well, I wasn't able to do anything until we had a DB server to suck
the data out of. Mike has provided (thanks) and we now have a copy
of the DB in MySQL.
Now I need to write code to convert its ludicrous schema (*) into something
less insane before proceeding to the import.
jh
(*) Unique numeric-only IDs for articles, users and comments are stored
as strings for some reason. This makes simple queries about what we
already have versus what changed between the 2 DB dumps extremely
difficult. Specifically, for example, "5" is always a *larger* value
than "4999". [sigh]
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