I imported a big table from excel with many columns. Access when I brought it in determined that they should be "text" format. I don't want to sit and change each field to a "number-double". Is there a way to quickly change data type for multiple fields at once?
View RepliesI'm using Access 2002 and need to increase some field sizes, some by increasing the maximum number of characters and others by changing from Text to Memo. When I try to do this I get the message "Microsoft Access cannot change the data type. There isn't enough disk space or memory"
I have two 320GB hard drives and 4GB of RAM and the Access file is a mere 280MB. Can anyone please explain the problem and tell me how to achieve my objective?
Roger
Does anyone know if its possible to change the data type of a field from "Text" to "Number" by using a macro?
thx
Hi,
I am trying to import an excel spreadsheet into Access2000 using the import wizard.
I choose my XLS file, I say whether or not the first row contains headings, (no is the anwser).
Then I want to change some of the fields to data type of memo from text, but all I can see if Field 1 and data type option is blanked out.
If I click or double click on another field it doesn't change.
so I cannot change the datatype of a field..
do you know why, and how I can fix this ?
The reason I want to do this is one of the rows in excel has 300 characters, and the text field in access only allows 255.
regards,
Jamie
my teacher asked me to do Access homework to change data type from Text to Boolean. Data in "Owned car" field show as Y or N
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so I click on Design View and change datatype of this field from "Text" to "Yes/No" , than when I saved it show a message
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When I back to Datasheet view, all data in "Owned car" field change to be "No".
How can I change data type to be Boolean type without deleting my original data??? I want them to show the same as Y or N.
I use Access 2003. I've set the Data Type on a field name to = Percentage
I've tried to use all - Field size types
I want to enter in 50 in the table and have the output be 50% currently it goes to 5000%
Is there anything i have to add in the Validation rule to make it show the exact value?
I'm a bit of a newbie, so lets just get that out of the way....
I have a field in a table that was originally a text data type. I want to change it to a "lookup" data type using the lookup wizard. However, Access doesn't allow me to do this and prompts me with "You can't change the data type....its part of one or more relationships...". But there are no relationships? There may have been previously, but I've deleted them all from Relationships window.
This has happened several times now. I am in the process of designing the database and have been changing my mind about data types when I realize that I can use a lookup data type. The only fix I have found is to make a copy of the table in question and then change the data type of the problem field. Unfortunately this screws up my forms...which is a pain.
Why would Access say that there are relationships in the relationships window when in fact there are none?
I've attach a copy of my db. The field in question is located in the "Activities" table. The field name is "ACTIVITY_NAME". I am trying to use a lookup from the activityNames table using the "ActivityName" column.
Thanks for any help in this matter.
Hi! I have a problem to build Pivot table in Excel 2003.
I’m creating this table base on the “External Data” which is a MS Access 2003 table.
The table has 50 fields and about 500.000 records. (This is the reason, I can’t just export table to Excel and then do pivoting). One of the fields of this table has a “text” type but stored numbers. Excel does not allowed me do Sum or Max function with this field – it needs to have Number data type.
I receiving this table “from outside”, so I can’t get the right data type from the beginning. If I’m trying simply opening the table, before, using as a data source for Pivot Table, in Design mode and just change data type from text to number, I have an error: "Microsoft Access can't change the data type. There isn't enough disk space or memory."
Any advice, how to change Data type in existing table using queries or something else what can help me to solve this problem.
Thank you very much at advance.
Alec.
Looks like mismatched join types has caused others plenty of headaches in the past!!
I am trying to create a query that connects 2 separate areas of our factory.
The first table (Table 1) has a field called prod_code which is a text field and this code (5 digit number) describes a manufactured product.
The next table (Table 2) also has a field called prod_code which is also a text field, is a different 5 digit number, and describes the same product but after packaging.
There is a 3rd table which I want to use to link both of these tables, but in table 3:
table 1. prod_code = table 3.item_code, and is a long integer. and table 2.prod_code = table3.item_code_prnt, also a long integer.
I need to be able to use table 3 to correlate data from tables 1 and 2.
I suspect I need to use Clng or similar but am unsure how to apply it.
Have been trying to construct an expression but continually get error (bracketing error, join mismatch etc, etc)
Any clues?
In my database i have a field for Tonnage (quantity) ...
I need for example to input 38.60 or 37.89 so my values must have 2 decimal places, ive searched and found changing my field type to double or decimal should solve the 'numbers rounding up/down' but access will not let me change the data type?
I got Gross Income Query. But I have employees that have overtime rate as well
So I have to calculate using overtime Payment And Gross Income Separately
So I make query and in query . I write this equation
Ovetime Pay: IIf([Total Hours Worked]>[Normal Hours/week],([Total Hours Worked]-[Normal Hours/week])*[Overtime Payrate],"0")
I successfully calculate it ...
BUT IT JUST GIVE ME THE VALUE LIKE A NUMBER SUCH AS e.g. 50 ,150 but instead of that i want currency data type of that calculate field for e.g. 50 become "$ 50".
Okay so in able to do that i go to properties Sheet of the field of the query and change Format to Currency ..BUT IT DOESN'T CHANGE !!!
DATABASE PAYROLL - Copy.zip
I have two tables(see below). I want to set up a query, link these 2 tables together. I set a one-to-one relationship between Client ID in two table. But got error message :"Type mismatch in expression".
I tried to change Client ID data type from "Text" to "Number", then Access deleted some data under Client ID in Order table.How can I make this work, but not having to re-type in all data?
Client Table:
Client ID(Autonumber)
Client Name (Text)
Client Address (Text)
Order Table:
Order ID(Autonumber)
Client ID(Short Text)
Unit Order(Number)
Unit Price
So I have decided that I want my ID's to be AutoNumbers, but at the moment they are currently set as Numbers. I have already inserted data, to test, which has been deleted, however I am now unable to change the ID field back to AutoNumber.
How can I duplicate the tables so that this field can be changed again?
I have like 10 tables with heaps of feild, so remaking them will take long, but I know there is a way using queries, I am just not sure how...
I have a table with about 300,000 records. About ten fairly small fields per record. I am trying to change the length of a text field from 25 to 40 characters, and I get the error message, 'MS Access can't change the data type. There isn't enough disk space or memory'.
I have never seen this message before. I have about 64 Gig of free disk space. What can I do?
When I run the analyzer on all object types it recommends to change the data type for field "zip" (zip code) to "long integer to:
"benefit that table and potentially other objects in my database"
The field type is currently set to text, And I have the same setting for the same field in a separate table, yet it does not come up with a recommendation for that table.
Additionally, I don't seem to have the option "long integer" for the field data type???
jeds - using Access 2010
I have multiple queries containing the same types of data. How would I make one big query out of all of this data?
View 4 Replies View RelatedOk,
So after finishing my database with mail merges I found out that I identified a few fields as number fields but these fields may contain numbers that start with 0 and I need to preserve that.
I believe the right step is to make those fields text fields. This preserves my 0 for me but gives me other problems. My question is if that is the only way to retain the lead 0 in the data?
If it is then my problem then becomes a mail merge problem.
I am mail merging to a specific form and need the data to fit into specific boxes but I am unable to format the text with a switch. I can format the data when it is a number by using /# ### ## ####. This works just fine for me
but I am unable to format it when it is text with a switch. I basically need to put spaces in between the text fields so i can make it fit so instead of 012345678, I need it look like 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 in the word document.
I cant seem to fins anything on formatting text switches for spacing.
Thanks!
I've got a table that has several yes/no data type fields. I'm trying to the data into a report and show either yes or no as opposed to -1 or 0.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a problem that I can't seem to solve in SQL for my access 2010 query.
Let's say I have a the price of and for every year.
In the tables I have A building number, a building type, and electricity and water predictions for this year and many upcoming years (up to 40 years)
I need to apply a change to any building with the building type BRT to show only 10 percent of the electricity and water for ALL years (up to year 2052). So building 5 would show 8.5, 5.4, 9.5, 7.4, and so on.
I have a database consisting of three linked tables, with ID as unique identifier (primary key).
I would have expected the data type for my unique identifier, especially in the main table, to be Autonumber. However, I discovered with some surprise that the primary key (ID) in
Table 1 (Main table) is data type: number, field size: double
whereas in table 2 and table 3 the ID is data type: autonumber (field size: long integer)
It must have happend "SOMEHOW" when I divided the original single table.
Is this as it should be? Or could it lead to trouble later on?
If not as should be, is there anything I can do right now to rectify the situation with risking upsetting the relationships and all?
What precautions should I take, apart from taking a backup?
Thanks for your help.
Adrian
I'm trying to use the following expression:
=IIf(ELookUp("EventDate","qsfrmEvents","[EventID] = 8 And [fkClaimID] = ' & [Forms].[frmClaim].[txtClaimID]'")>0,True,False)
But I'm getting a data type mismatch. txtClaimID is numeric, but if I take out the single quotes I get a syntax error.
I created a table in MS Access using a Lookup & Relationship data-type. This means that my record cells call upon a particular table for values. It creates a LIST of values for that cell.When I query a particular value in this table I get every possible combination of the value. My query and code are below:
OR,
SELECT MainT.Content.Value, MainT.Source, MainT.[Entities Impacted].Value, MainT.Update,
MainT.[Divisions Impacted].Value, MainT.Announced, MainT.Effective, MainT.Stakeholders.Value,
MainT.[Ref#ID], MainT.[Issuing Agencies].Value
FROM MainT
WHERE (((MainT.Content.Value) Like "*" & [Forms]![SearchF]![ContentCB] & "*" Or (MainT.Content.Value) Is Null)
[Code] .....
This means that if I query STATES: "California", I'll get back every possible combination that exists with the name California in that particular field.The issue with this is that I'll get MULTIPLE primary key values rather than just 1. So, if one record, under STATES has California in it, but the other fields in that record have the Lookup & Relationship data-type, then every possible combination of that record will query instead of the multiple field-values form that you'll see in the table I am querying.
notice that my primary key (REF#ID) is repeated numerous times! This obviously causes problems with generating records and forms concerning information for 1 particular primary key. Is there a way around this problem other than specifying search criteria down as much as possible?! Perhaps there is some SQL code.
I have a table with a field with names set to text data type and i want to change it to number data type but when i do it in design view the data get lost. I want to know if there is a way to convert the data in the field as number type and keep the data in the field.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI HAVE A DATASETS cSV TEXT FORMAT WHICH HAS A SELECTION OF FIELDS THAT NEED TO BE IMPORTED INTO A TABLE. USING THE ADVANCED IMPORT FACILLITY I HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO IMPORT THE DATA PLEASE HELP AS THIS IS FOR MY A-LEVEL STUDENTS.
THE FIELDS REQUIRED IN THE SESSION TABLE ARE,
Booking ID, Customer ID, Date Booking Made, Pickup Point, Payment Made
The CSV data set attached
tHANK YOU
SIMON
I have an on click event to mail a report which works. I want to change the text to include data from a table.
I changed the code to include the field 'office' from the table 'Checks' but get an error saying 'Object required'.
Code is :
Private Sub cmd_mailreport_Click()
Dim office As Object
Set office = Checks.office
DoCmd.SendObject acReport, "checks", "PDFFormat(*.pdf)", _
"info@company.com", "", "", office & " Daily Check - " & Date, "Attached is the report for the office", _
True, ""
End Sub
I am using calculated field as a data type in access 2010.
They are working fine.
However, I added a new field and now the final calc won't work.
I have Subtotal adding loads of fields together. Works fine.
Then I have a VATunit field which is a double integer, so enter 20 and my next field is VATTotal calculates the SubTotal + the VATunit by doing (Subtotal/100)*VATunit. This calculation is fine and gives me the correct amount.
The next field is a Total field. Which adds Subtotal and the VATTotal together. Howver, the Total is the same as Subtotal. It is not adding the VATTotal to it?