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Baseball-DataBank.org vs. Lahman 5.5   Message List  
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Re: [baseball-databank] Re: Baseball-DataBank.org vs. Lahman 5.5


> A couple of the recently added tables (eg, schools, xref) in the BDB
> database aren't in the Lahman database. But other than that, the
> Lahman database and the BDB database are the same thing, just in
> different formats.

Is this something that may be addressed in the future?  I prefer the CSV files to SQL personally, since they're platform independent...

Thanks,
  Andy Dolphin


Mon Jan 7, 2008 8:30 pm

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I'm sorry if this is a dumb question but I wasn't able to find the answer on the site or FAQ, but what is the different between the Baseball-Databank database...
Tony Robran
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Jan 2, 2008
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... Not a dumb question. The underlying data is the same, as are the table structures. The Lahman database is distributed primarily in MS Access format,...
Sean Lahman
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Jan 3, 2008
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... Is this something that may be addressed in the future? I prefer the CSV files to SQL personally, since they're platform independent... Thanks, Andy...
Andrew E Dolphin
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Jan 7, 2008
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... The BDB files are csv and SQL: http://baseball-databank.org/files/ I always use the csv files, and import them into my database. The Lahman database is set...
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