[mso] Re: A query.

The simple answer part: Excel has 65536 rows (that's 256, 2 to the power of
8, squared) and 256 columns per worksheet

SQL I don't use and anyway off topic I think, but whilst Access is a bit
hairy to get to grips with I learned earlier this year that if you have time
to struggle at the beginning and get over the initial threshold, it does
fall into place and is simple but sometimes fiddly.

Certainly if you get the hang of Forms, I would say that is the best way of
idiot-proofing your data



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From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jens Outzen
Sent: 25 November 2005 09:52
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] A query.






Been too quiet.

Imagine that you have a list with multiple entries.
(Account problem)
You have a name/company (actually 15000) that may have several different
types of account against them. Each name will have an address, telephone
number, contact, account handler etc etc. If you imagine a bank and all
their accounts.

If all this was entered into an Excel spreadsheet (what is the maximum you
can enter into a spreadsheet by the way ?) What would be the easiest way to
extract information (I was thinking of just using the filters or using pivot
tables) ? My experience with Access is limited (when I used it had a
tendency to fall over - mind you, that was quite a while ago) and i would be
more inclined to using SQL. I can do that but I need to make this
"idiot-proof" and one thing that I haven't got experience with is marrying
SQL with a query box
(Excel) or to a bespoke query box (as in one you would find on a webpage) I
have always written "straight language queries", but I assume that a macro
could solve that.

I believe that I can get there but if anyone has a good idea - or two - I
would be happy to incorporate those in my work.

In advance thanks for your time and efforts.


Jens N. Outzen
Senior Commercial Analyst
Paddington Station
0207 298 7300 ext 243
07921 942 559 (Mob)



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