Re: Assigning a review month, algorithm question

Consider using the last number of the contract or item as the decider? There's 10 digits and they probably are as random as you're going to get? So use that digit ( +1 ) as the month. I'd leave December empty anyway, because thats a bad month to do scheduled monthly work. There are just too many annual events, holidays, and vacations in December. Maybe every 11th record could be forced to be a November?




Wilt, Charles wrote:

Yes, this is a one time shot to establish the month.

The month will be stored on the contract record.

Charles Wilt Software Engineer
CINTAS Corporation - IT 92B
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Is this a one time process to establish the review month?

Rather than try to determine the totals, it might be easier to just
assign the month in a loop by changing the month for every record by
calling a function.

How are the review months going to be stored? That would help to
provide better advice.

Tom Armbruster

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Subject: Assigning a review month, algorithm question

Ok put your thinking caps on!



I've got a file with the following keys...

Location

Contract #

Item Number



What I need to do is assign a review month to each contract in such a
manner that approximately 1/12
the locations totals items are reviewed each month.



I've thought of a brute-force type method.

1) Get totals grouped by location, contract

2) Figure 1/12 the location's total items

3) Add contracts for a location to a given month till you get close to
the number in step 2



But I was curious if anybody had a more elegant method?



Note I'm dealing with 150,000 contacts containing 1.5 million items at
118 locations. Some locations
have 50,000+ plus, some < 100.



I've also looked at randomly assigning contracts to the review month.
That's pretty easy to do, and
it's not to bad but there are discrepancies in the # of items reviewed
each much since there's some
contracts could have 10 items and others 100s or 1000s.



Thanks!



Charles Wilt

Software Engineer

CINTAS Corporation - IT 92B

513.701.1307

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