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Hi Izwan,
The way IRStats2 processes requests is more complicated than you can easily  replicate in a normal SQL query.

It tries to count ‘human’ usage of content, so has a list of ‘robot’ user-agents (https://www.eprints.org/resource/bad_robots/robots_ua.txt ) which it filters against - as well as other approaches.

If you need to provide some 2025 data for someone, you could select data from the access table – but say that it includes all records – robots, humans, double-clicks etc., so will over-count the figures significantly.

 

Cheers,

John

 

John Salter

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8611-8266

 

White Rose Libraries Technical Officer
Library and Research Management team, IT
University of Leeds

 

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Subject: [EP-tech] Query for IRSTATS2 Download from Access Table

 

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Dear Eprints

 

Our repo is currently under repocessing the data. And it takes a very long time to reach 2025.

I plan to do a quick query directly from the access table. I can't get the same or near the same as shown in the IRStat screen (for previous year)

 

Example for 2013
Repo Stat Screen shows -186,757

 

Query from the access table  - 282,322

Query with condition referring_entity_id !='' - 165,815

 

My query is 

SELECT COUNT(*) AS Jumlah

FROM access a LEFT JOIN eprint b ON a.referent_id=b.eprintid
WHERE a.datestamp_year='2013' AND service_type_id='?fulltext=yes' AND referring_entity_id !='' AND eprint_status='archive'

 

Is there any other condition I should add to at least be near the one shown in the EPrint page?

 

Izwan
UiTM Digital Library

https://ir.uitm.edu.my

 

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