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Originally Posted by o_crunk
You would never alter the source of the data for storing it as-is. For whatever the need is, and the need may change, you store it as it was transmitted from the "source of truth", in this case Equibase and transform it as needed. In this case, some clients wanted BAQ, some wanted AQU. Some wanted BAQ display but AQU historical stats. You get it. Meanwhile, the races actually took place at AQU.
It is non-issue for me. Still doesn't make it right. Right is better than wrong. BAQ was wrong on almost every data level from the single source of truth.
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You and Jeff are obviously correct.
The only reason I can think of why a user might want to store it as BAQ is because some trainer or other patterns are seasonal. If it was stored as AQU you might miss things that are normally more likely to occur seasonally at Belmont or BAQ. Other than something like that, I don’t get it.