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24 rolling periods
We have an ERP system that stores monthly qty's sold information by item. So
Nov 2009 is period 23. Jan 2010 will be period 01. Query will work from a form where user will enter number of past periods to review and the item. (.e.g. 6) entering 6 would need to add periods 22 thru 17. I thought about building a table with (if period = 23 then add these periods together but it would need to be huge to consider all possible combinations. Any one have a better way? |
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24 rolling periods
What are you actually storing in your table, the period number or a date or
something else? Typically you can use DateAdd() and/or DateSerial() functions to describe a rolling range of dates. Your criteria might look like: Between DateSerial(Year(Date()), Month(Date())- 24,1) And Date() The above would filter to the previous 24 months from the 1st day of the starting month. -- Duane Hookom Microsoft Access MVP "mccloud" wrote: We have an ERP system that stores monthly qty's sold information by item. So Nov 2009 is period 23. Jan 2010 will be period 01. Query will work from a form where user will enter number of past periods to review and the item. (.e.g. 6) entering 6 would need to add periods 22 thru 17. I thought about building a table with (if period = 23 then add these periods together but it would need to be huge to consider all possible combinations. Any one have a better way? |
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24 rolling periods
It doesn't store any date information only sales data. So if I look up item
1234 it will have periods 1 thru 24 containing qty sold in each period. So I need to query the system for the current period (Nov 2009 is 23) and decipher which periods to include (add together). "Duane Hookom" wrote: What are you actually storing in your table, the period number or a date or something else? Typically you can use DateAdd() and/or DateSerial() functions to describe a rolling range of dates. Your criteria might look like: Between DateSerial(Year(Date()), Month(Date())- 24,1) And Date() The above would filter to the previous 24 months from the 1st day of the starting month. -- Duane Hookom Microsoft Access MVP "mccloud" wrote: We have an ERP system that stores monthly qty's sold information by item. So Nov 2009 is period 23. Jan 2010 will be period 01. Query will work from a form where user will enter number of past periods to review and the item. (.e.g. 6) entering 6 would need to add periods 22 thru 17. I thought about building a table with (if period = 23 then add these periods together but it would need to be huge to consider all possible combinations. Any one have a better way? |
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24 rolling periods
It sounds like your table is horribly un-normalized where period information
is stored in field names. This would create 24 fields where a normalized table structure would result in 24 records. If this is your situation, you can normalize your data with a union query. You haven't provided any field or table names so I can't provide the SQL of the union query. -- Duane Hookom Microsoft Access MVP "mccloud" wrote: It doesn't store any date information only sales data. So if I look up item 1234 it will have periods 1 thru 24 containing qty sold in each period. So I need to query the system for the current period (Nov 2009 is 23) and decipher which periods to include (add together). "Duane Hookom" wrote: What are you actually storing in your table, the period number or a date or something else? Typically you can use DateAdd() and/or DateSerial() functions to describe a rolling range of dates. Your criteria might look like: Between DateSerial(Year(Date()), Month(Date())- 24,1) And Date() The above would filter to the previous 24 months from the 1st day of the starting month. -- Duane Hookom Microsoft Access MVP "mccloud" wrote: We have an ERP system that stores monthly qty's sold information by item. So Nov 2009 is period 23. Jan 2010 will be period 01. Query will work from a form where user will enter number of past periods to review and the item. (.e.g. 6) entering 6 would need to add periods 22 thru 17. I thought about building a table with (if period = 23 then add these periods together but it would need to be huge to consider all possible combinations. Any one have a better way? |
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