[AccessD] Query Help

 > Doh! Like I said, it's been a while :(


Well welcome back to the dark side.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 3/23/2012 3:18 PM, Bryan Carbonnell wrote:
> Thanks gents,
>
> That appears to be exactly what it is.
>
> The dumb thing is that my boss is one of those duplicate entries. She
> works out of 2 locations and has 2 phonebook entries.
>
> Doh! Like I said, it's been a while :(
>
> B
>
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 3:07 PM, jwcolby<jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>  wrote:
>> It does sound that way.
>>
>> John W. Colby
>> Colby Consulting
>>
>> Reality is what refuses to go away
>> when you do not believe in it
>>
>>
>> On 3/23/2012 2:41 PM, Kaup, Chester wrote:
>>>
>>> Seems to me like the same LastName and FirstName exist more than once in
>>> the table tblPhoneBook
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Carbonnell
>>> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 1:34 PM
>>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>>> Subject: [AccessD] Query Help
>>>
>>> Hey guys I need help!
>>>
>>> It's been about 3 years since I have touched Access and can't recall
>>> how to build a specific query.
>>>
>>> Here is what I have:
>>>
>>> tblUsers
>>> ------------
>>> ID - Autogenerated PK
>>> LastName
>>> FirstName
>>> .....
>>>
>>> tblPhoneBook
>>> --------------------
>>> ID - Autogenerated PK
>>> LastName
>>> FirstName
>>> Location
>>>
>>>
>>> What I need is a query that will give me EVERYONE from tblUsers and
>>> the matching records from tblPhoneBook. The only fields that are
>>> common are the LastName and FirstName fields.
>>>
>>> This is the SQL that I've got and it's not working correctly, or at
>>> least not to me anyway
>>>
>>> SELECT tblUsers.*, tblPhoneBook.[LastName], PhoneBook.[FirstName],
>>> PhoneBook.Location
>>> FROM tblUsers LEFT JOIN PhoneBook ON (tblUsers.FirstName =
>>> PhoneBook.[FirstName]) AND (tblUsers.LastName = PhoneBook.[LastName])
>>> ORDER BY tblUsers.LastName;
>>>
>>> tblUsers has 987 records and the query is returning 993 records and I
>>> can't for the life of me figure it out.
>>>
>>> These tables were actually Excel Spreadsheets that were imported into
>>> Access.
>>>
>>> Help!! Please?!?!
>>>
>>
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