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Old December 16th, 2008, 04:36 PM posted to microsoft.public.access
Jeff
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I have inherited a HUGE spreadsheet that consists of 15 columns, and over
5000 records.

It is a list of employee reviews.

The Column Headings a Employee name, Review date, Rating, comments, etc.
So one employee would have several "records" or rows, one for each review.
I would like to pull over records based on certain criteria, such as employee
name, date, etc.

Is this an application for ACCESS?

Thanks!!

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Jeff
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Old December 16th, 2008, 04:45 PM posted to microsoft.public.access
Hasan Kocaman
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"Jeff" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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I have inherited a HUGE spreadsheet that consists of 15 columns, and over
5000 records.

It is a list of employee reviews.

The Column Headings a Employee name, Review date, Rating, comments,
etc.
So one employee would have several "records" or rows, one for each review.
I would like to pull over records based on certain criteria, such as
employee
name, date, etc.

Is this an application for ACCESS?

Thanks!!

--
Jeff


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Old December 16th, 2008, 04:53 PM posted to microsoft.public.access
Duane Hookom
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Access could handle this quite effectively.
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"Jeff" wrote:

I have inherited a HUGE spreadsheet that consists of 15 columns, and over
5000 records.

It is a list of employee reviews.

The Column Headings a Employee name, Review date, Rating, comments, etc.
So one employee would have several "records" or rows, one for each review.
I would like to pull over records based on certain criteria, such as employee
name, date, etc.

Is this an application for ACCESS?

Thanks!!

--
Jeff

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Old December 16th, 2008, 05:15 PM posted to microsoft.public.access
PvdG42
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"Jeff" wrote in message
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I have inherited a HUGE spreadsheet that consists of 15 columns, and over
5000 records.

It is a list of employee reviews.

The Column Headings a Employee name, Review date, Rating, comments,
etc.
So one employee would have several "records" or rows, one for each review.
I would like to pull over records based on certain criteria, such as
employee
name, date, etc.

Is this an application for ACCESS?

Thanks!!

--
Jeff


To add a bit to previous answers, a simple design could be sufficient, given
what you've provided.
Consider an Employee table, with columns for data related to the employee
(including a unique identifier, or primary key, for each employee, such as
an employee number). A second table, Ratings, would have columns for data
for each rating and include a foreign key column to associate each rating
with an employee.

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Old December 16th, 2008, 05:57 PM posted to microsoft.public.access
Duane Hookom
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Default Huge Spreadsheet

To add a little more, I would consider further normalizing your "spreadsheet"
so that each rating doesn't have its own column. There is a sample employee
evaluation MDB available at:
http://www.rogersaccesslibrary.com/f...8e8 ze79a949f
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"PvdG42" wrote:


"Jeff" wrote in message
...
I have inherited a HUGE spreadsheet that consists of 15 columns, and over
5000 records.

It is a list of employee reviews.

The Column Headings a Employee name, Review date, Rating, comments,
etc.
So one employee would have several "records" or rows, one for each review.
I would like to pull over records based on certain criteria, such as
employee
name, date, etc.

Is this an application for ACCESS?

Thanks!!

--
Jeff


To add a bit to previous answers, a simple design could be sufficient, given
what you've provided.
Consider an Employee table, with columns for data related to the employee
(including a unique identifier, or primary key, for each employee, such as
an employee number). A second table, Ratings, would have columns for data
for each rating and include a foreign key column to associate each rating
with an employee.


 




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