[mso] Sorting huge file (remove dupes, if possible)
- From: "Robert Carneal" <carnealre@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:37:47 -0600
I have a file that is horrible duplicated in records. I might have 1,000
"US","Florida","Miami-Dade County","Miami", 25.77389, -80.19389
(Plus other locations that have 100s of duplicates.)
strewn throughout the file. I thought I could import into Access 2000, and
it would accept all of it, I could sort it, and then de-dupe it.
However, upon attempting to import, Access complains there are too many
duplicates, and stops. Excel is out also.
Given this, then, can I make Access import it, duplicates and all? Then I
could sort, and have Access remove the duplicates after importing? If not, I
could sort, export, and I will write a C program to remove the duplicates,
and re-import the resulting file into a new Access file?
Given a file of supposedly about 1,750,500 records, I expect to retain
slightly around one million, doing away with 750,000 or so records. Then
since they are unique , Access should import that just fine.
Any help in getting Access to accept the duplicates anyway would help. Thank
you.
Robert
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