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Dear Experts,
I am trying to perform Select If in MSSQL in Access, not having any success. All I want to do is have 2 columns with addresses, pick the one that is not blank to use.
Name: Short text
Address: Short text
BillingAddress: Short text
The data will have either Address or BillingAddress filled, and I want to create mailing labels.
I tried to write SELECT IF ( Address != "", Address, BillingAddress) As LabelAddress From MyTable and getting syntax error, I am not sure if MSSQL support SELECT IF.
How could I accomplish this in Access? Do I need to create VBA module?
Please advise.
I am trying to perform Select If in MSSQL in Access, not having any success. All I want to do is have 2 columns with addresses, pick the one that is not blank to use.
Name: Short text
Address: Short text
BillingAddress: Short text
The data will have either Address or BillingAddress filled, and I want to create mailing labels.
I tried to write SELECT IF ( Address != "", Address, BillingAddress) As LabelAddress From MyTable and getting syntax error, I am not sure if MSSQL support SELECT IF.
How could I accomplish this in Access? Do I need to create VBA module?
Please advise.
Microsoft AccessVBA
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Dale Fye
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Thank you Experts for getting this right!!
You might want to look at Nz for this rather than an Iif expression.
Nz(Clients.[Address], Clients.[Billing_Addr])
Nz(Clients.[Address], Clients.[Billing_Addr])
Another way to address this, if either of those could be zero length string "", would be:
IIF(Trim(Clients.Address & "") <> "", Clients.Address, Clients.Billing_Addr)
IIF(Trim(Clients.Address & "") <> "", Clients.Address, Clients.Billing_Addr)
I am not able to get the syntax right. I want to use either Address or Billing_Addr which ever is not blank. What am I doing wrong?
SELECT IIF (Clients.[Address] != "", Clients.[Address], Clients.[Billing_Addr])
FROM Clients;
Please advise.