Have you tried running the "Find Duplicates" query wizard? This should show you any duplicate records in your table.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 8:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ms_access] Re: Data duplications I am not sure how to eliminate the duplicate item, but if you do not want to manually delete them create a first query that groups everything on the table and then do your calculations to figure out the commission. --- In [email protected], "loginmaryk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a MS database that calculates the commission for sales people, > the branch managers provide me with the sales data and then database > (query) calculates the commission. I have about 10,000 or more rows of > data every month (in a table), the only problems that I have is > sometimes branch managers duplicated the data by mistake for example > we have two rows or more of data that are the same (the same Vendor # > and Item #) is there anyway that I can make the query to eliminate the > duplications. > > Thanking you in advance. Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/q7folB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ms_access/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
