:confused: I have a database of historical baseball data.
It contains 5 tables:
Players: (Full Name, Last Name, First Name, Primary position)
Year: (Single field, w/autonumber)
Data: (many fields of specific data)
Position: (C thru DH)
Team: (1-30)
Each table has a unique key, (auto-generated)
The database contains 4 years worth of specific data, (2003-2006)
The main data table has lookups to the other tables built in to the current table
First run through shows the DB to operating pretty efficiently, (although more time will tell more, NOTE: I am a level 2 rookie).
PROBLEM:
I now need to import/update/append the tables with 2007 projected data, and then at the end of this year coming up, I will need to do the same with actual data, and so on.......
The data that is coming into the DB does not contain MATCHING PRIMARY KEY:
The Team Name, (with age as an added field)
Player Names, (all full,last,first,primary position)
The data, (all fields match name and data type)
Year, (2007, + I will be adding a field that denotes actual or projected).
HOW do I update the tables and assign the primary keys to all the table's matching names while doing so and assign the correct/matching Pirmary Key to the updated records.
HOW do I verify that the update was correct without scrolling through 2500 data rows and 937 players?
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Doug
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For example if I had a 'contracts' table which refers to 'clients', then there would be a tblClients, where each client has a primary key. The tblContracts would then refer to the relevant client via that clients FK only which would be linked to the client's PK in tblClients via a one-to-many relationship.
If I need any user for any purpose to see contract related information that makes sense to a human being, I simply construct a query with the necessary relationships that will show client information alongside contract information by substituting tblContracts' client FK with required information from tblClients via the appropriate relationships.
I think that is reasonably basic stuff (hopefully correct practice!)
But what about when I come to import a block of new data that needs to go into tblContracts? I'm not going to be given a list of client keys (obviously) I'm going to given their real names.
MS Access has (in theory) all the information it needs (via the relationships) to substitute client IDs (keys) for their real names and thus slot these IDs into tblContracts with the new data as appropriate, but how do I make it do this? (I know it could kick out errors if there are any duplicate client names, but let's put that to one side for a moment).
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