Show only fields that DONT match in two recordsets
Basically I have two tables. One table called RC (tblReportCard) and another one called RCC (tblReportCardChanges). I have a VBA function that inserts the RC records in RCC whenever the user makes any changes of many fields. For instance if the user makes a change to CarrierCallCount I insert the entire recordset into RCC. That all works fine. Now what I want to do is to be able to get only the fields that do not match. the inner joins are on CarrierCode, ReportMonth, ReportYear. both tables have the exact same field names. So if only one of four fields are different I only want to see the one that is different. I did a query with a bunch of ORs but then it shows ALL of the fields. I want to exclude the fields that match in both tables in my query.
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Hain,
I will try that and it will probably work but the only issue I have with all of the IIF statements is that if and when the fields change then I need to rewrite it. That is why I would like to do it via VBA using recordsets. That way I can loop through the fields and return the recordset. I will try this though.
I will try that and it will probably work but the only issue I have with all of the IIF statements is that if and when the fields change then I need to rewrite it. That is why I would like to do it via VBA using recordsets. That way I can loop through the fields and return the recordset. I will try this though.
but the issue will be each record will have different number of columns
say result is 3 records...
rec1: id, col2, col4
rec2: id, col1
rec3: id, col3
at the end you need to show all columns :)
id col1 col2 col3 col4
+ you want old & new values
say result is 3 records...
rec1: id, col2, col4
rec2: id, col1
rec3: id, col3
at the end you need to show all columns :)
id col1 col2 col3 col4
+ you want old & new values
id col1_old col1_new col2_old col2_new col3_old col3_new col4_old col4_new
1 B BB D DD
2 A AA
3 C CC
or are you changing only one column at a time?
based on the sample above, what result set are you looking for?
based on the sample above, what result set are you looking for?
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It may be possible to change all of the columns. Right now there are a total of four columns that can be changed. Of course at least one of the four has changed or there wouldn't be an entry in RCC.
maybe you can do this
select rc.id, 'Col 1' ChangedColumn, rc.col1 OldValue, rcc.col1 NewValue from rc inner join rcc on rc.id=rcc.id and rc.col1<>rcc.col1
union all
select rc.id, 'Col 2' ChangedColumn, rc.col2 OldValue, rcc.col2 NewValue from rc inner join rcc on rc.id=rcc.id and rc.col2<>rcc.col2
union all
...
union all
select rc.id, 'Col n' ChangedColumn, rc.coln OldValue, rcc.coln NewValue from rc inner join rcc on rc.id=rcc.id and rc.coln<>rcc.coln
order by rc.id, ChangedColumn
select rc.id, 'Col 1' ChangedColumn, rc.col1 OldValue, rcc.col1 NewValue from rc inner join rcc on rc.id=rcc.id and rc.col1<>rcc.col1
union all
select rc.id, 'Col 2' ChangedColumn, rc.col2 OldValue, rcc.col2 NewValue from rc inner join rcc on rc.id=rcc.id and rc.col2<>rcc.col2
union all
...
union all
select rc.id, 'Col n' ChangedColumn, rc.coln OldValue, rcc.coln NewValue from rc inner join rcc on rc.id=rcc.id and rc.coln<>rcc.coln
order by rc.id, ChangedColumn
id ChangedColumn OldValue NewValue
1 Col 2 B BB
1 Col 4 D DD
2 Col 1 A AA
3 Col 3 C CCASKER
I had to alias the iif statements and it worked like a charm. Thank you very much. I would still be interested in doing this with recordsets if anybody sees this that has an idea on how to loop through the two and do a compare.
Thank you very much
Thank you very much
it will be difficult or very slow compared to query solution...
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