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I was wondering if anyone could help me with the following:

I have one table in access that has a series of records, each one has a userid, givenname, surname and activity. for eg

1 Bill Bloggs Hockey
1 Bill Bloggs Cycling

I would like to merge these two record so that it reads

1 Bill Bloggs Hockey, Cycling
Nov 19 '07 #1
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MMcCarthy
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Merging fields like this is not the right way to go about it. This defeats the purpose of keeping a database. You need to look instead at normalising your tables. There is a tutorial on this you can look at.

Database Normalization and Table Structures

In this case you need to separate this table into two separate tables. one to hold the userid, givenname, surname and one to hold the activity with a foreign key reference to userid.
Nov 19 '07 #2

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