Combine queries with different items 1

[TrekBiker]

I have one query that contains sales of all items in a date range, and another that contains credits in the same date range.

Almost always the credits are for products for which there are corresponding sales. But sometimes not, where a customer has received credits for products bought earlier than the date range, and there have been no sales of these products in the current date range.

I can use a join type to subtract credits for all products where there have been sales but I'm looking for a way of including the data for credit-only products.

This shows an example of the two queries.

The highlighted credit is without corresponding sale product. The end result I need would start like this but I can only think of complicated ways of getting to this result.

 

[dhookom]

I'm not sure what you are looking for. Do you want to include all sold and credit records if they exist in either list?

Can you share the SQL view of your queries?


Duane
Minnesota
Hook'D on Access
MS Access MVP 2001-2016

 

[Andrzejek]

How about:

"the credits [...] for products for which there are corresponding sales."
UNION
"products bought earlier than the date range, and there have been no sales of these products in the current date range."



---- Andy

There is a great need for a sarcasm font.

 

[combo]

Slightly expanding Andy's hint:
1. union query qryBeerSoldCreditDutyCalc:
[tt]SELECT [Beer Name], [ABV], [Pints] AS [Vol]
FROM
qryBeerSoldDutyCalc
UNION ALL
SELECT [Beer Name], [ABV], -[Pints] AS [Vol]
FROM
qryBeerCreditDutyCalc;[/tt]
2. aggregate query (sum) from qryBeerSoldCreditDutyCalc

combo

 

[TrekBiker]

Thanks all for quick responses, Andy for the pointer but especially Combo for giving the complete solution, worked a treat. Had forgotten about Union queries, symptom of 8th decade.

Thanks to all too for previous advice on how to submit questions clearly, still learning.