Drawbridge, Jack: SBMS
Drawbridge.Jack at ic.gc.ca
Thu Sep 13 13:49:17 CDT 2007
John, "we don't care who gets the mail, just get one piece to that address" So how about a query where you Select Distinct on address fields only (don't include any Person name info), then send a letter to Dear Occupant, or Boat Owner or Cat Lover.... as the case may be. We've all received Dear Occupant letters -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 1:46 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] First in a group The problem here is that with mailing lists, particularly where you have 50 million names in the list, you haven't a clue who is who, just that they share the same last name and live at the same location. In the case I am working on now, they want males, making BIG bucks, who have a boat. I am seeing three males (all different names) all apparently claiming the boat, and all claiming to make big bucks. The client only wants to send one piece of mail to the address. Who do YOU choose? As you can see, there are often criteria (only target the males) etc. We do have age fields, sometimes they are filled in, sometimes the client wants to target an age group. In those cases the age group narrows who gets the mail. Not so in this specific case. In a previous mailing, they wanted women who owned a cat, in specific income groups. Then they wanted Women, who owned a dog, in specific income groups. Neither could be in the other mailing (dog owners could not get the cat mailer, cat owners could not get the dog mailer). What a PITA THAT was. But yea, in general, "we don't care who gets the mail, just get one piece to that address". John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Hale, Jim Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 12:46 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] First in a group So if you have parent/children or parent/grandparents living at the same address it is pot luck as to who gets the mailing? The child or grandparent or inlaw for that matter might get a letter intended for the parent? That could be interesting! :-) Jim Hale -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 11:11 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] First in a group Thanks all who replied. I added an autonumber ID to the table. 1) Extracted all matching records to a temp table. 2) Added an autonumber ID so I could uniquely point to any given record. 3) Created qFirstID where I Grouped By the address hash and pulled the First(ID) That gave me the correct subset of records where there is only one ID for each address. 4) Joined that ID from qFirstID with tblOrder on the ID in qOrderFirstID 5) Selected all the name / address fields and viewed them to ensure no dupes. NO DUPES. 6) Used that to export the data Again thanks for the suggestions. I really have to write up a document of how I do this stuff!!! John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 11:07 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] First in a group John, Group on the address and use First([person]) to get the nanme. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 7:06 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: [AccessD] First in a group I have a set of address records where there are several people at the address. I need to send only one piece of mail to that address, the person doesn't matter. John Colby, Some Street, SomeCity, SomeState, SomeZip Mary Colby, Some Street, SomeCity, SomeState, SomeZip John Doe, Some Other Street, Some Other City, Some Other State, Some Other Zip Mary Doe, Some Other Street, Some Other City, Some Other State, Some Other Zip I don't care whether I send to Mary or John, I only care that only a single piece of mail goes to each address. Select distinct of course acts on the entire row and so returns all 4 names. I do have an address hash that generates a hash string for just the address part. So it seems like something like a group by address hash and then a top1 is the right direction, but of course it has to be the TOP 1 in each GROUP. I could (and might have to to get this out) write a little VBA routine to do this but I would rather use a SQL solution. So how is this done in SQL. John W. 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