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Old May 28th, 2010, 12:45 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.queries
slotmgr70
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I have a table that tracks each customers visit to my store. I hold
promotions on occaision that bring customers that haven't visited my store in
awhile. When I hold a promotion, I'm trying to determine the number of days
since the last visit for each customer. For example, here is a sample
customer:

Account_No Visit_Date
1234 4/19/10
1234 4/10/10
1234 3/10/10
1234 2/13/10

This customer generally visits once a month. Assuming that I held a
promotion on 4/19/10, I want to calculate the number of days since the most
recent visit, in this case being 4/10/10 (9 days).

The goal is to see if I have affected their trip pattern by holding the
promotion and if I was able to generate an incremental trip by holding the
promotion.
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Old May 28th, 2010, 02:33 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.queries
Allen Browne
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Time to learn about subqueries. Here's an intro:
http://allenbrowne.com/subquery-01.html

You will end up typing an expression like this into a fresh column in the
Field row in query design:
(SELECT Max([Visit_Date]) AS PriorVisit
FROM [Table1] AS Dupe
WHERE (Dupe.[Account_No] = [Table1].[Account_No])
AND (Dupe.[Visit_Date] [Table1].[Visit_Date]))

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"slotmgr70" wrote in message
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I have a table that tracks each customers visit to my store. I hold
promotions on occaision that bring customers that haven't visited my store
in
awhile. When I hold a promotion, I'm trying to determine the number of
days
since the last visit for each customer. For example, here is a sample
customer:

Account_No Visit_Date
1234 4/19/10
1234 4/10/10
1234 3/10/10
1234 2/13/10

This customer generally visits once a month. Assuming that I held a
promotion on 4/19/10, I want to calculate the number of days since the
most
recent visit, in this case being 4/10/10 (9 days).

The goal is to see if I have affected their trip pattern by holding the
promotion and if I was able to generate an incremental trip by holding the
promotion.


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Old May 28th, 2010, 02:58 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.queries
Wolfgang Kais[_4_]
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Hello "slotmgr70".

"slotmgr70" wrote:
I have a table that tracks each customers visit to my store. I hold
promotions on occaision that bring customers that haven't visited my
store in awhile. When I hold a promotion, I'm trying to determine
the number of days since the last visit for each customer.
For example, here is a sample customer:

Account_No Visit_Date
1234 4/19/10
1234 4/10/10
1234 3/10/10
1234 2/13/10

This customer generally visits once a month. Assuming that I held a
promotion on 4/19/10, I want to calculate the number of days since
the most recent visit, in this case being 4/10/10 (9 days).

The goal is to see if I have affected their trip pattern by holding
the promotion and if I was able to generate an incremental trip by
holding the promotion.


You probably mean something like this?

SELECT tblVisits.Account_No, tblVisits.Visit_Date, DateDiff("d",
(SELECT Max(tmp.Visit_Date) From tblVisits AS tmp WHERE tmp.Account_No
= tblVisits.Account_No AND tmp.Visit_Date tblVisits.Visit_Date),
tblVisits.Visit_Date) AS Difference
FROM tblVisits
ORDER BY tblVisits.Account_No, tblVisits.Visit_Date DESC;

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