Given I'm a seasoned IT professional with 30 years+ experience, you'd think I'd be able to intuitively know why there are daily and historic race and runner tables. I'd have assumed the layout of the daily/historic tables would be the same but perhaps they'd just contain different data based on time, but that's not the case at all.
My initial interest is in race times, which you can only get from the historic_runners table - why is this not available in the daily ones? The annoying thing is that there are races I can see in the daily race/runner tables, e.g. 1250094, that aren't in the historic tables. This is pretty useless unless I'm missing something?
I have installed the initial historic data into MySQL and I have setup the updater (which didn't appear to do anything), should I be downloading anything else?