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concatenating duplicate records

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horsecarriage

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Apr 21, 2005
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I have a 3 column access table with the following fields

id, cat_id, category

when I do a recordset sorted by id ascending there are some duplicate cat_ids.

In other words the result would look something like this:

ID cat_id category
1 25 bowling
2 47 skiing supplies
3 47 skiing continued
4 55 archery
.
.
.
.

What I need to do is for records such as the ones that have cat_id 47 is to have them concatanated into one record.

So after the update the table would look like this:

ID cat_id category
1 25 bowling
2 47 skiing supplies skiing continued
4 55 archery
.
.
.
.

The second record gets deleted but it's contents get added to the previous record.

I need help in writing this. I'm sure there has to be a while loop and update and a delete.

Any help in writing this would be great. thanks
 
Look at Sheco's reply in this thread.

thread333-1039394

I think it will do what you are looking for.

Paul
 
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