Mike, Combine your files into a cursor TMP and then select your unique set of rows with SELECT * distinct FROM TMP
Joe On Thursday, May 30, 2013 6:06 PM, MB Software Solutions,LLC wrote: > >Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 18:06:37 -0400 >From: MB Software Solutions,LLC >To: [email protected] >cc: >Subject: Re: Ideas on how to proceed to get unique set of rows (no keys) > >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 >http://fabmate.com >http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
