# Far West Masters Membership Database Utilities Tool

The Membership Database Utilities Tool is installed as part of the Far West Masters configuration of the USSA masters race scoring tool. It provides utility services for checking and extracting data from the FW membership database (a Microsoft Access database) for use with the scoring software (e.g., initializing the season racer list in the scoring tools with the current active members).

To run the FWM membership database utilities tool, execute the FWMMemberDBUtilTool.bat batch file in the FW scoring software installation directory or an equivalent Windows shortcut. (See the Installation instructions for a description of how to create a Windows shortcut from the command in the batch file that is provided.)

Disclaimer: The Membership Database Utilities Tool provides a simple UI on some underlying utilities that operate on the FW membership database. This tool is of limited interest and should only be used by a suitably knowledgable person who understands what is going on and who has presumably made proper backups of the actual database before applying any edits.

***NOTE*** The following is an incomplete and possibly obsolete description that was written in January 2001. Needs to be updated to reflect the current state of the tool [DJL 02-May-2002]

The currently provided utilities are a run-once-at-the-start-of-the-season service to check and update competitors age classes [FW class only initially; USSA class to be hooked up pending resolution of some issues about the representation of this field in the database], as well as a one-time utility to normalize old all-uppercase values from the original Paradox membership database into "normal" casing now that we have migrated the database to Access. The utilities provide an analyze-and-report mode, so you can verify what's going to happen and determine whether it is desired, as well as an edit-database mode which actually updates the database. The latter should only be done after the .mdb file is backed up.

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Last update: 02-May-2002