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Populate a new field in an existing table
Hi all
Access 2003: I have an existing Access table, containing 10,000+ rows called "Printing" and I have decided to insert a new column called "Financial Year". However, I am struggling of finding a way to instantly populate this field with the value "2009-10", without going into each row (I have three more tables to do this to with 30,000+ rows) Going forward it will be populated with all the other fields, but I just need to bring them all up to date first. Can anyone help out? Thanks for reading. DominicB |
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Populate a new field in an existing table
On Thu, 27 May 2010 13:59:37 -0700, Dominic
wrote: Hi all Access 2003: I have an existing Access table, containing 10,000+ rows called "Printing" and I have decided to insert a new column called "Financial Year". However, I am struggling of finding a way to instantly populate this field with the value "2009-10", without going into each row (I have three more tables to do this to with 30,000+ rows) Going forward it will be populated with all the other fields, but I just need to bring them all up to date first. Can anyone help out? Thanks for reading. DominicB This field should simply NOT EXIST AT ALL, if it can be derived from other data in the table - e.g. a date field. The Update query Dorian suggests will work nicely, but I really question whether you're solving the wrong problem! -- John W. Vinson [MVP] |
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Populate a new field in an existing table
Thank you for the advice guys. The information in the field isn't available
elsewhere. Dorian, the query worked perfectly, and thank you for the heads up on spaces in column names. This has now been amended. Dominic "John W. Vinson" wrote: On Thu, 27 May 2010 13:59:37 -0700, Dominic wrote: Hi all Access 2003: I have an existing Access table, containing 10,000+ rows called "Printing" and I have decided to insert a new column called "Financial Year". However, I am struggling of finding a way to instantly populate this field with the value "2009-10", without going into each row (I have three more tables to do this to with 30,000+ rows) Going forward it will be populated with all the other fields, but I just need to bring them all up to date first. Can anyone help out? Thanks for reading. DominicB This field should simply NOT EXIST AT ALL, if it can be derived from other data in the table - e.g. a date field. The Update query Dorian suggests will work nicely, but I really question whether you're solving the wrong problem! -- John W. Vinson [MVP] . |
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