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 <description>&lt;p&gt;I was doing some reporting recently, where I needed to compare dues payments by member category.  I thought that since I was doing historical reporting, the activities table was the place to go.  It contained the transaction date, amount, product code. I started using the category field from the name table (which i joined to activities), however I soon realised that I needed the historical member category, not the current one.  To my disillusionment I found that iMIS does not populate the Category field in the activity table (Even though there is a space for it!).  We did however have historical category information in the name_log table. So I set about to create a SQL script to back-populate the category field in the activities table based on the information in the name_log table.&lt;/p&gt;
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