Best Practice - Long Daily Record List

Hi,
I'm new to doing this type of thing in Numbers and I'm struggling with how best to manage a growing journal list. As in:
- I have a table where I enter a new row every morning. In the row I store values of things like calories, sleep, performance, time (it's mainly to track my cycling) from the day before.
However, I'm starting to have problems:
- Now that the table is three months old, it's starting to get really long. What's the best practice here? Sort descending and add a new row at the top every morning? Or is there a way to create a "view" that, for example, only shows the last 14 days?
- Also, averages that I calculate from a column have become all but meaningless because a single day has so little weight. So what's the best practice here? Is there a way to calculate averages based on, say, the last 14 days only? If I sort descending as above, I guess I could just average the first 14 rows of each column. But I imagine there's a more elegant way to do this that involves date ranges up to the current date (at least, that's how I'd tackle it in FileMaker Pro).
I suppose this begs the question: is Numbers the right tool? I want to keep this record of my daily cycling stats going forward, hopefully for many years. It would be great to stay with Numbers as it's a pleasure to use and the charts are beautiful. But maybe a database tool is the way to go? Any thoughts? All I really need are a few charts and a few averages. A database does seem like overkill to me.
Many thanks in advance,
Pat

Hi Badunit,
Thanks for the pointer on extracting the last x values into a new table! Took me a while to reason it through.
Slightly more convenient than:
=OFFSET(Table 1::A$1,ROWS(Table 1::A)−16+ROW(),0)
May be:
=INDEX(Data::$A:$B,COUNT(Data::$A)−14+ROW())
That one doesn't require remembering how to adjust the 14 when only 14 items are wanted.
It seems COUNT($A) only counts the body rows while ROWS() includes Header and Footer Rows too.
SG

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Hi Mike,
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I have to agree with Pixlor and here's why:
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Layout Best Practices

Problem Description
A developer needs to be able to create a rich client interface and avoid basic layout issues that tend to be pervasive across screens and applications. There are a number of low-level layout issues within ADFv that:
<ol>
<li>Tend to repeat themselves across screens and across applications.</li>
<li>Impact perception of usability, quality, and fit ‘n’ finish.</li>
<li>Are annoying to users in the aggregate. Although no single item is terrible, but a collection of 6 items, repeating themselves on multiple screens gets frustrating and detracts from the message.</li>
</ol>
In most cases, there’s a simple approach and best practice that will assist developers in avoiding these pitfalls.
Technical Best Practice Description
This Layout Best Practices document provides a list of known layout issues that are encountered when developing a Rich Client Interface and how to avoid them in your application development.
Various ADF Components are described and demonstrated in this document including document, showDetailItem, decorativeBox, panelSplitter, panelStretchLayout, panelBorderLayout, and so on. It takes many of these components in combination to achieve the desired layout for a page and / or an application.
Click here to see the document that describes these best practices.
Edited by: Richard Wright on Nov 17, 2009 5:26 PM

Hi,
Try this link: [Layout Best Practices|http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/adf/patterns/11/layoutBestPractices.html]
Regards,
Edited by: Richard Wright on Nov 17, 2009 5:27 PM

What is the best practice of deleting large amount of records?

hi,
I need your suggestions on best practice of deleting large amount of records of SQL Azure regularly.
Scenario:
I have a SQL Azure database (P1) to which I insert data every day, to prevent the database size grow too fast, I need a way to remove all the records which is older than 3 days every day.
For on-premise SQL server, I can use SQL Server Agent/job, but, since SQL Azure does not support SQL Job yet, I have to use a Web job which scheduled to run every day to delete all old records.
To prevent the table locking when deleting too large amount of records, in my automation or web job code, I limit the amount of deleted records to
5000 and batch delete count to 1000 each time when calling the deleting records stored procedure:
1. Get total amount of old records (older then 3 days)
2. Get the total iterations: iteration = (total count/5000)
3. Call SP in a loop:
for(int i=0;i<iterations;i++)
 Exec PurgeRecords @BatchCount=1000, @MaxCount=5000
And the stored procedure is something like this:
BEGIN
INSERT INTO @table
SELECT TOP (@MaxCount) [RecordId] FROM [MyTable] WHERE [CreateTime] < DATEADD(DAY, -3, GETDATE())
END
DECLARE @RowsDeleted INTEGER
SET @RowsDeleted = 1
WHILE(@RowsDeleted > 0)
BEGIN
 WAITFOR DELAY '00:00:01'
 DELETE TOP (@BatchCount) FROM [MyTable] WHERE [RecordId] IN (SELECT [RecordId] FROM @table)
 SET @RowsDeleted = @@ROWCOUNT
END
It basically works, but the performance is not good. One example is, it took around 11 hours to delete around 1.7 million records, really too long time...
Following is the web job log for deleting around 1.7 million records:
[01/12/2015 16:06:19 > 2f578e: INFO] Start getting the total counts which is older than 3 days
[01/12/2015 16:06:25 > 2f578e: INFO] End getting the total counts to be deleted, total count:
1721586
[01/12/2015 16:06:25 > 2f578e: INFO] Max delete count per iteration: 5000, Batch delete count
1000, Total iterations: 345
[01/12/2015 16:06:25 > 2f578e: INFO] Start deleting in iteration 1
[01/12/2015 16:09:50 > 2f578e: INFO] Successfully finished deleting in iteration 1. Elapsed time:
00:03:25.2410404
[01/12/2015 16:09:50 > 2f578e: INFO] Start deleting in iteration 2
[01/12/2015 16:13:07 > 2f578e: INFO] Successfully finished deleting in iteration 2. Elapsed time:
00:03:16.5033831
[01/12/2015 16:13:07 > 2f578e: INFO] Start deleting in iteration 3
[01/12/2015 16:16:41 > 2f578e: INFO] Successfully finished deleting in iteration 3. Elapsed time:
00:03:336439434
Per the log, SQL azure takes more than 3 mins to delete 5000 records in each iteration, and the total time is around
11 hours.
Any suggestion to improve the deleting records performance?

This is one approach:
Assume:
1. There is an index on 'createtime'
2. Peak time insert (avgN) is N times more than average (avg). e.g. supposed if average per hour is 10,000 and peak time per hour is 5 times more, that gives 50,000. This doesn't have to be precise.
3. Desirable maximum record to be deleted per batch is 5,000, don't have to be exact.
Steps:
1. Find count of records more than 3 days old (TotalN), say 1,000,000.
2. Divide TotalN (1,000,000) with 5,000 gives the number of deleted batches (200) if insert is very even. But since it is not even and maximum inserts can be 5 times more per period, set number of deleted batches should be 200 * 5 = 1,000.
3. Divide 3 days (4,320 minutes) with 1,000 gives 4.32 minutes.
4. Create a delete statement and a loop that deletes record with creation day < today - (3 days ago - 3.32 * I minutes). (I is the number of iterations from 1 to 1,000)
In this way the number of records deleted in each batch is not even and not known but should mostly within 5,000 and even you run a lot more batches but each batch will be very fast.
Frank

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