[AccessD] copy all multivalue field values

Susan Harkins ssharkins at gmail.com
Sun Mar 2 16:32:02 CST 2014


Yeah, I knew that. I was just hoping. :) The reader found a solution
though, so I'm off the hook. :)

Thanks!
Susan H.


On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>wrote:

> They're not actually stored all together in the original table  - it just
> looks that way.  The are
> really normalized child records which are hidden by the system.
>
> This is just one of the many reasons that MVFs should be avoided (along
> with attachment
> and hyperlink fields).
>
> --
> Stuart
>
> On 2 Mar 2014 at 13:18, Susan Harkins wrote:
>
> > A reader wants to append the values in a multivalue field to a second
> > table, but he wants to append them as is - in a single row. By
> > default, an append query creates a new row for each value. Seems like
> > it should be easy to tell Access to keep them all together as they're
> > stored in the original table, but I'm not finding it. Any help?
> >
> >
> >
> > Susan H.
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