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Old February 12th, 2008, 11:37 PM posted to microsoft.public.access
Paul Wilson
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Hi,

I have 2 table which have identical fields and I wish to create a table from
the duplicates found. The wizard does the opposite it takes out the
duplicates.

How do I go about it?

Cheers
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Old February 13th, 2008, 12:47 AM posted to microsoft.public.access
John W. Vinson
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:37:00 -0800, Paul Wilson
wrote:

Hi,

I have 2 table which have identical fields and I wish to create a table from
the duplicates found. The wizard does the opposite it takes out the
duplicates.

How do I go about it?

Cheers


Create a Query joining the tables on *all* the fields which define a
duplicate; change it to a make-table query.

Why you would want to store data that is already twofold redundant in
THREEFOLD redundancy is beyond me! What on Earth are you trying to accomplish?
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John W. Vinson [MVP]
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Old February 13th, 2008, 01:04 AM posted to microsoft.public.access
Paul Wilson
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The client wishes to see the 2 sets so they can fix up there database. To
minimalize re-occurence.

Thats seems to do the trick with exact matches, is there a way to make it
not so exact on matches?

Thanks John.
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"John W. Vinson" wrote:

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:37:00 -0800, Paul Wilson
wrote:

Hi,

I have 2 table which have identical fields and I wish to create a table from
the duplicates found. The wizard does the opposite it takes out the
duplicates.

How do I go about it?

Cheers


Create a Query joining the tables on *all* the fields which define a
duplicate; change it to a make-table query.

Why you would want to store data that is already twofold redundant in
THREEFOLD redundancy is beyond me! What on Earth are you trying to accomplish?
--
John W. Vinson [MVP]

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Old February 13th, 2008, 02:52 AM posted to microsoft.public.access
John W. Vinson
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Default show duplicates of 2 tables

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:04:06 -0800, Paul Wilson
wrote:

The client wishes to see the 2 sets so they can fix up there database. To
minimalize re-occurence.


That's what I don't understand.

You will now have three different tables containing the same data. Any or all
of the three tables can be edited. You now have many MORE opportunities to
screw up the data and have two or three different versions in three different
tables.

What benefit do you see coming from creating the redundant table... again?

Are you perhaps making the common but erroneous assumption that you need to
create a Table in order to create a Report?

Thats seems to do the trick with exact matches, is there a way to make it
not so exact on matches?


Probably. But my telepathy is a bit on the blink tonight and I don't know what
your data looks like or what constitutes a "not so exact" match.
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John W. Vinson [MVP]
 




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