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Thread: Custom Counter in microsoft.public.access.queries

Started 1 month, 3 weeks ago by AccessIM
I have a table that tracks employee attendance records. In the table, I am calculating an accumulative total column for points. This took me quite some time to figure out but I finally did it and it works perfectly but now I am seeing that using an autonumber field for this purpose is not the best practice. Currently, I ...
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KARL DEWEY replied 1 month, 3 weeks ago
>>an append query that re-enters the records in the correct order of EmployeeID and IncidentDate Why do you care the order they are in the table? Try this select query --- SELECT qryTotalDetail.EmployeeID, qryTotalDetail.SSN, qryTotalDetail.INCIDENTDATE, qryTotalDetail.TYPE, qryTotalDetail.POINTVALUE, (SELECT Count(*) ...

AccessIM replied 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Thank you, Karl. I guess I thought the order of the table mattered to get the results I wanted. Here is how I would like the results to look and I have accomplished this with the extra manipulation and autonumber: EmployeeID SSN INCIDENTDATE TYPE POINTS ACCUMTOTAL 10 ...

KARL DEWEY replied 1 month, 3 weeks ago
>>The first thing I noticed was that my desired results does not include the incidents that don't generate points for the employee. There is nothing in what I posted that would eliminate records that have zero as POINTVALUE or that POINTVALUE is null. The reason the sequence number field that is consecutive from one record to...

AccessIM replied 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Oh my... I am going to do a little more testing from home tonight but I think that is it! I cannot thank you enough for that knowledge, Karl. I have been struggling with that for days and you were able to help me within hours of my first post. I will also be able to carry this over to another database I created in which I used the ...

KARL DEWEY replied 1 month, 3 weeks ago
It is just a 'typical' 'Ranking in a group' query. -- Build a little, test a little. "AccessIM" wrote: > Oh my... I am going to do a little more testing from home tonight but I think > that is it! I cannot thank you enough for that knowledge, Karl. I have been > struggling with that for days and you ...

 

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  Oh my... I am going to do a little more testing from home tonight but I think that is it! I cannot thank you enough for that knowledge, Karl. I have been struggling with that for days and you were able to help me within hours of my first post. I will also be able to carry this over to another database I created in which I used the same procedure of deleting and recreating a table over and over. I appreciate all your help and...
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  It is just a 'typical' 'Ranking in a group' query. -- Build a little, test a little. "AccessIM" wrote: > Oh my... I am going to do a little more testing from home tonight but I think > that is it! I cannot thank you enough for that knowledge, Karl. I have been > struggling with that for days and you were able to help me within hours of my > first post. I will also be...

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