On 5/30/2013 5:51 PM, Tracy Pearson wrote:
MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote on 2013-05-30:
Coworker has several CSV files that get fed into Access and she wants to
produce an output in Excel that will only have unique rows, with no
duplicates. I was thinking the best way to do this would be a CHECKSUM
for the row but not entirely sure. I know when I import in MySQL, it
has an option to ignore duplicate records (although I'm not sure how
it's doing that behind the scenes...perhaps CheckSum, perhaps some other
way).
Suggestions on how to produce the unique rows in Excel? How would you
achieve a unique dataset in VFP?
tia,
--Mike
Mike,
In VFP, you pull them in to separate cursors, then UNION them together.
In Excel, you would need to script something.
Ah UNION...YES! BUT...what if the data within the same CSV file has
duplicates? The UNION approach wouldn't work then.
--
Mike Babcock, MCP
MB Software Solutions, LLC
President, Chief Software Architect
http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com
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