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Thursday 9 October 2014

Excel to Access (A)

In Microsoft Access you don't think about your data as being pages, you think about it as being a continuous list. The general way to extract data is to ask a question like "which part of this list do I want?" In your case you would say I want this "customer" where this date = X. You would ask this question with an SQL statement something like:- Select fld1, fld2 From tblMyTable Where Customer = "Fred" and myDate <> date A further requirement "If there are no results then I do not want to print the report." You would count the results returned by the above query and if the count was 0 then you would not create the report. You also want to ask the question, not for just one customer but for each customer. To achieve this you would use an SQL statement which gathers the customer names then you would put this record set into a record set loop and interrogate each record in turn. So your original question is now broken down into several elements the first element being:- "In your case you would say I want this "customer" where this date = X." Once you have achieved this you can then concentrate on solving the next element and once you have an understanding of all the elements you can draw it together to produce the result you want. Shared from Google Keep

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