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Article #3424Lookup Fields
From: Albert Fowler
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 15:16
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 15:16
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I have a access dbase with about 8 million records. A lot of the records have the same data in certain fields. I have used Lookup fields to cut down on the size. What I am trying to do is make it so the user can build filters using several fields. Is there a quick way to obtain a non-duplicate list of the data in certain fields, so i can make a list of multiple choice as the filter is built. Example: A record has fileds for Company,Address,City,St,Zipcode,Phone,Fax,Category code1,Category code2,Category code3 What I would like to do is create ComboBox controls in succession so that when the user selects a state, it filters a combobox with zipcodes to only display the zipcodes in that state, with no duplicates, then they select a zipcode and it filters a combobox with cities to only display cities in that zipcode with no duplicates etc, etc etc. Then it builds a filter using " AND " to filter the Main dataset. I know I can iterate through and use TDuplicates << dpIgnore, but with 8 million records this seems very time consuming. It sure seems there has to be a better way, what am i missing? Thanks in advance, Albert Fowler
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