From: Bobbo on 22 Dec 2009 15:44 Need some guidance on a task I am looking in to. I hava an excel spreadsheet that exports some data in to a access db table. There are 6 fields in the table (ID, MName, Role, Proj, Joined and Group. What I am trying to figure out is a way to clean up the table. In each field there are duplicates. I was thinking that I could create a separate table for the MNames and Proj fields. Then replacing the data with the key id from the new fields. Does this sound like I'm going in the right direction. Thanks Bob
From: Gina Whipp on 22 Dec 2009 16:02 Bobbo, Well, we know what you have but not what you are doing. In order to determine a table set-up it would help to know what you are trying to track and why you are importing it to Access. -- Gina Whipp "I feel I have been denied critical, need to know, information!" - Tremors II http://www.regina-whipp.com/index_files/TipList.htm "Bobbo" <Bobbo(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E086F689-3A8A-459E-AF86-957F8B0F4DA7(a)microsoft.com... > Need some guidance on a task I am looking in to. I hava an excel > spreadsheet > that exports some data in to a access db table. There are 6 fields in the > table (ID, MName, Role, Proj, Joined and Group. What I am trying to figure > out is a way to clean up the table. In each field there are duplicates. I > was > thinking that I could create a separate table for the MNames and Proj > fields. > Then replacing the data with the key id from the new fields. > > Does this sound like I'm going in the right direction. > > Thanks > Bob
From: Steve on 22 Dec 2009 17:41 Hi Bob, Without knowing what exactly is the data in the fields, it seems you need separate tables for Role, and Group also. Then you need a junction table that records each MName on each project. The junction table would look like: TblProjectMName TblProjMNameID ProjectID MNameID Steve santus(a)penn.com "Bobbo" <Bobbo(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E086F689-3A8A-459E-AF86-957F8B0F4DA7(a)microsoft.com... > Need some guidance on a task I am looking in to. I hava an excel > spreadsheet > that exports some data in to a access db table. There are 6 fields in the > table (ID, MName, Role, Proj, Joined and Group. What I am trying to figure > out is a way to clean up the table. In each field there are duplicates. I > was > thinking that I could create a separate table for the MNames and Proj > fields. > Then replacing the data with the key id from the new fields. > > Does this sound like I'm going in the right direction. > > Thanks > Bob
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