I own a small business. Need to track a few hundred pieces of rental
equipment that can be in any of a few dozen locations. I'm an old-time C
language programmer (UNIX environment). If the only tool you know how to
use is a hammer, every problem tends to look like a nail. That said, I
could solve my problem in C, but it's not the right tool. I need to come
into the Windows world, and I need to get this done in Access or
something similar.
I have made a start in Access, and am making good progress, buy I'm
stymied by a query (or family of queries) that I will need.
I have defined two tables (over-simplified here): Eqpt and Loc for
attributes of the equipment and location, respectively. Primary Keys are
EqptID and LocID.
Since the equipment moves around between locations, I have a third table
with three attributes: EqptID, LocID, and EqLocDate. The date is the
date on which a piece of equipment was placed at a location. I need a
query for this third table.
1. Each piece of equipment will have multiple entries in this table. I
need to find the most recent (latest date) entry for each piece of
equipment. This can then be used to generate a report showing, for each
location, what equipment is currently at that location.
Can anyone help with that query?