Open MScientistCM opened 5 years ago
Thanks andrea for feedback below:
I have an idea about the two differences in DOB issue (but I didn't check it, so you may want to have a look).
I think the problem may be due to a known bug both in TransferTool and in DBExporter export function which leads to a one day error in exported DOBs, here and there, with no evident pattern. In the past I tried to figured out why and how to correct it, with no success.
I think the problem is not present in the DBUpdater tool. I am actually using DB Updater export for all of my activities.
If that's the case, I think it is probably better for you to move to CM0102 Updater tool export rather than altering the sensitivity of your algorithms to cope with TransferTool bug, as that may increase false positives.
Thanks Dermotron for feedback below:
If I remember correctly archiebalduk figured out why this is. It was something along the lines of the numbers being stored a text and when converting to excel they are rounding up or rounding down. That's the complicated bit as whilst it's text, it's behaving as a date e.g. 01.06.1982 doesn't become 01.06.1983 but rather "correctly" 31.05.1982
Thanks Andrea for feedback.
Note: some of list above actually have 2 differences in DOBs although they appear with only one difference in the list. Maybe adjust the code to detect 2 differences in DOB if they are very similar like that.