Will the daily cards be ready 3 days before race day?

Question

Hi,

Will the daily cards be ready 3 days before race day?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi - thanks for the question; we should have these loaded on Friday evening, but we will update again tomorrow.

Comments

Great, thanks for the update.

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The cards have arrived so should be fetchable from 7:30 pm tonight

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Thank you. When using the automated scripts to update the database, how would I know if the updates have been successful from the command terminal? I'm updating on my Mac and all I get is 'loading updates from 'http:...'

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I always run a query at command line if wanting to check the data is loaded, eg:
>smartform (alias to starting mysql with username/ password)
>select scheduled_time, course from daily_races where meeting_date >= CURDATE();

This returns:
+---------------------+-----------+
| scheduled_time      | course    |
+---------------------+-----------+
| 2020-06-01 13:00:00 | Newcastle |
| 2020-06-01 13:35:00 | Newcastle |
| 2020-06-01 14:10:00 | Newcastle |
| 2020-06-01 14:45:00 | Newcastle |
| 2020-06-01 15:20:00 | Newcastle |
| 2020-06-01 15:55:00 | Newcastle |
| 2020-06-01 16:30:00 | Newcastle |
| 2020-06-01 17:05:00 | Newcastle |
| 2020-06-01 17:40:00 | Newcastle |
| 2020-06-01 18:15:00 | Newcastle |
+---------------------+-----------+
10 rows in set (0.11 sec)

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Great, thank you. Do the Betfair daily mappings not update until the morning of the Raceday?

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Yes, always morning of raceday - usually by 9 am.