Deleting and Creating a Table

[azizrasul]

Is there a way of coding the deletion of a table in MS Access and recreating it using data in the MS Excel file. I want to count the number of rows in a column (which can vary day to day) and create a table called "tblKPIs" with fields equal to the number of rows e.g if I have 10 rows then the fields will be F1, F2, ... F10.

Alternatively I don't have to delete the table and just have a 100 fields (as I know the number of rows will not exsceed this number) but delete the data before exporting to the table.

 

[Norie]

Aziz

Why do you want a field for each row of data?

A table structured like that really isn't going to be much use without a whole lot of unneeded code.

 

[azizrasul]

Each row has a unique date. In another part of the worksheet, I will have columns with these dates which has data. I want to export this data into a table I want to create. As the number of date rows will change each day I want the table to dynamically created or have a table with many fields to accommodate the maximum number of dates I will get and simply empty the table and export the data into the table. Hope that makes sense.

 

[Norie]

Aziz

That still doesn't explain why you want mutiple fields.

Why not one field with multiple records?

Which you can keep on adding to as much (within reason) you want.

If you really want multiple fields you could even run out of fields at some point.

 

[azizrasul]

If I have say 3 rows with dates May-11, Jun-11, Jul-11, I will now have columns called May-11, Jun-11, Jul-11 with data in these columns which I now want in separate fields F1, F2 and F3. I don't want to combine the data in the 3 columns in 1 field.

 

[Norie]

What are you acually going to do with this data once it's in Access?

Will you be query or linking by date at any point?

 

[Ruddles]

Aziz, perhaps if you post a sample of your worksheet and then show us what you want the Access table to look like?

 

[azizrasul]

How do I post the sample worksheet?

Some of the columns of data in the Excel sheet will be empty. I will try to invoke a macro or code in Access to populate these by running some queries in Access and re-import into Excel.

 

[Ruddles]

Place borders around the cells, select a smaller font (8pt or 9pt) and then copy-and-paste the cells directly into a message.

 

[azizrasul]

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