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  84                   <p>This is to document all of the issues related with bad data in the source databases that is impeeding the PQA Merge process. Along with the issues I will present what I did to work around the problems and what I suggest we should do to provide a smooth transition of these databases</p>
  85                   <h2>Resolving Data Conversion Problems in PQA Database Merge</h2>
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  87 <h3>New fields that are mandatory</h3>
  88
  89 <p>The following fieilds are new in the destination database (Cont) and are also mandatory thus must be filled in with something:</p>
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  92   <li><b>Cont:Found_On_Gold:</b> This field is defaulted to <i>No</i>.</li>
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  94
  95 <h3>Fields with blank or invalid data</h3>
  96
  97 <p>The following fields have blank or invalid data in the source database thus fail validation when added to the new database:</p>
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 100   <li><b>TO:SQATestCase:</b> This field, when blank, is set to the string "N/A". This field is also renamed to <b>Cont:PQATestCase</b>.</li>
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 102   <li><b>TO:Title_2:</b> This field, when blank, is set to the string "N/A". This field is also renamed to <b>Cont:TItle</b>.</li>
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 104   <li><b>Prod:Software_Version:</b> This field, when blank, is set to the string "N/A".</li>
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 106   <li><b>Prod:HUT_Version:</b> This field, when blank, is set to the string "N/A". This field is also renamed to <b>Cont:Board_Revision</b>.</li>
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 108   <li><b>Prod:Software_Version:</b> This field, when blank, is set to the string "N/A".</li>
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 110   <li><b>Prod:SQATestCase:</b> This field, when blank, is set to the string "N/A". This field is also renamed to <b>Cont:PQATestCase</b>.</li>
 111 </ul>
 112
 113 <h3>Fields with data that are no longer valid in new database</h3>
 114
 115 <p>The following fields have data in the source database but fail validation when added to the new database due to reasons like not being on the list of acceptable values for the field in question:</p>
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 118   <li><b>Prod:Category</b> This field sometimes has the value of <i>Hardware</i> or <i>System Bios</i> which are not valid choices in the new database. For now I am changing <i>Hardware</i> -> <i>Hardware - Chip</i> and <i>System Bios</i> -> <i>Software</i>. I suggest we add <i>Hardware</i> and <i>System Bios</i> to the constant list as <i>HARDWARE</i> and <i>SYSTEM BIOS</i> (Capitalized) so we can easily find and correct these later.</li>
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 120   <li><b>Prod:Issue_Classification:</b> This field sometimes has the value of <i>Hardware</i> which is not a valid choice in the new database. For now I'm changing <i>Hardware</i> -> <i>Requirement</i>. I suggest we add <i>Hardware</i> to the constant list as <i>HARDWARE</i> (Capitalized) so we can easily find and correct these later.</li>
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 122   <li><b>Prod:Resolution:</b> This field sometimes has the value of <i>HW Fix</i> or <i>MAC Core</i> which are not valid choices in the new database. For now I am changing <i>HW Fix</i> -> <i>HW - Fix</i> and <i>MAC Core</i> -> <i>SW Fix</i>. I suggest we add <i>HW - Fix</i> and <i>MAC Core</i> to the constant list as <i>HW - FIX</i> and <i>MAC CORE</i> (Capitalized) so we can easily find and correct these later.</li>
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 124   <li><b>Prod:HUT_Revision:</b> This field is sometimes set to "n/a". This is translated to "N/A" (note capitalization).</li>
 125 </ul>
 126
 127 <h3>Fields that need truncating</h3>
 128
 129 <p>The following fields have data that is too large to fit in the size of the corresponding field in the destination database:</p>
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 131 <ul>
 132   <li><b>Prod:ActionNotes:</b> This field is defined with a maximum length of 50 characters in the TO database, 250 characters in the Prod database and 50 characters in the Cont database. Some entries in the Prod database are greater than 50 characters thus require truncation. I suggest that we increase the maximum length of <b>Cont:ActionNotes</b> to 250 characters to avoid this problem.</li>
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