[MSNoise] advice on processing database subsets

[Phil Cummins]

Hi again,

As some of you may recall, I'm just getting started with msnoise. I have 
a large database and have managed to get my station and data 
availability tables populated.
At this point, rather than running through the whole database, 
processing it with parameters I hope might work, I'd rather process 
small subsets, e.g. 1 day at a time, to experiment with window lengths, 
overlaps, etc., to find what seems optimal. My question is, what's the 
best way to process subsets of my database?
It seems to me I have several options:
     (1) Make separate databases for each subset I want to test, and run 
through the workflow on each
     (2) Set start and end times appropriate for my subset, re-scan and 
run through the workflow.
     (3) Populate the jobs table, and write a script to activate only 
the jobs I want and not the others.
I want to a fair bit of testing using different parameters before I run 
through the whole thing, so I think (3) may be best. But any advice 
would be appreciated.
Regards,

- Phil