Problems Importing from Access

D

davey

Hi,

This has to do with Access, but from inside of Excel, so I hope it
appropriate for this Forum.

Part of the Excel project I am working on has an external Acces
database to retrieve client & contact information from. The VBA cod
then reads the imported data and displays it in a userform.

The external database has 2 simple tables: Clients and Contacts.
These 2 tables have a one to many relationship (one client, man
contacts) based on a Region Number which is basically a number 1, 2, o
3 that represents the 3 major metropolitan areas we serve. The 2 table
work fine together inside Access. I can add builders in the builde
table and add contacts from either the builder table or the contac
table.

In Excel, I created a "New Database Query" for the Client Table info
filtered it for Region Number 2, and everything came in from th
database just as I expected for Region Number 2. Looked good. Thi
took up 9 columns (A-I). Then I skipped a column and starting i
Column K I did another "New Database Query" for the Contact Table Info
but when I went to select my filter for the region number, my choice
were 2, 9, 16, and 210 but of course I was expecting choices of Region
1, 2, and 3. In my database there are no regions 9, 16, and 210. If
forced in a Region 1 on this query, my field labels came in, but n
data. I did end up choosing each of these oddball region numbers jus
for kicks and data came into my spreadsheet, and in the correct columns
but was not in any list order that I would have wanted (obviousl
something is haywire). :confused:

Then I tried it on a completely blank worksheet in a new workbook an
only did the "New Database Query" for the Contact Table info and
still got the choices of filtering on Region 2, 9, 16, and 210.

Then instead of doing a "New Database Query" I just did a plain an
simple "Import External Data" and brought in the whole table, and al
my regions were numbered 2, 9, 16, and 210.

I then went back into Access to look at my tables and they both showe
regions 1, 2, 3.

What happened to my 1, 2, 3 on the 2nd table when it came over int
Excel? :confused:

Dave
 
D

davey

If it makes any difference, I might add that when I created the "Ne
Database Query" for the Builder info (the part that worked fine),
also edited the query for Regions 1 and 3 and the info came across a
expected. I say this, because I mentioned on the Client Table that on
of my choices on the query was a Region 2.

- Dave
 

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