I wish you a good evening. I am currently trying to create an automated google table for certain PC parts in order to have an exact overview. The problem is that too much text is imported and then incorrectly inserted in the table. I would like to have these sorted more precisely. See image. I only started to deal with the ImportXML xpath today. Since I don't want to sit on it for the rest of the evening after work, I ask for help here. I hope it's clear what it's about. I get my information from the websites Alternate and Mindfactory (Germany)
i would like to apologize if my english is not perfect. This is not my native language
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What you need is only a single row. OFFSET (reference) can be used to achieve it:
=OFFSET(TRANSPOSE(...), 0, 0, 1)
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Good day everyone, this is my first time posting here but I'd like some help with a recent issue.
So, I'm working on a small React app just for fun and to keep practising, in it I made a few constants for different datasets (each with varying data fields), that is, I have various kinds of records categorized in said constants, since some records use 2+ rows and some need only one row.
Initially I was going to share the app's code, but the datasets are a tad... large, so reading the tips I thought I'd instead create an online sandbox to illustrate with a much simpler and smaller scenario of what I managed to do: [link to the sandbox].
However, looking around and trying different stuff I found out about react-table, which is what I needed due to its useful features and how lightweight it is. I mainly need it for filtering records but I want to try some other features as well.
All this brings me to my problem: I want to populate a table in react-table with the multiple datasets together and their own ways their data is placed on the JSX code, however, I can't figure out what to do and my app's code is getting messy in the process, so I thought I'd ask here to see what I can do, using the code in the sandbox as base, then I can edit my app accordingly if there's a solution for this, otherwise I guess I can maybe make one table for each dataset or just use good ol' HTML+JS+CSS? But neither are the results I'm aiming for.
I'm in no rush for answers since this is just a project for fun and to practise, however, any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.
I need to query a table in SQL Server based on a number of criteria, any of which could be null. Criteria are:
SaleId
City
ZipCode
County
JudgementAmountMin
JudgementAmountMax
AssessedValueMin
AssessedValueMax
Saledatestart
Saledateend
All of these can be used to filter a selection or just come of them or none of them. I came up with a solution, which broke, and after posting a question asking for help, the responses I received all told me my solution was crap. OK, great, my solution was crap, even though I used a book on stored procedures to guide me and copied most of my solution from the example printed in the text. So how do I build a solution that isn't crap?
Keep in mind that I am should be considered a fairly new SQL Server practitioner and that I would need more than a two line terse response referring to some general process that can be narrowed down to provide a solution by those who already experienced. I am willing to learn and work at finding a solution, but ask that the response be more newbie friendly than being told that my solution is not any good and questioning why anyone would do it that way. Maybe because they followed an example in a book and didn't know any better. Examples are very helpful!
Remember everyone has to start somewhere. I am deaf, so going to classes is not an option that has worked for me. I really am trying, I just need some help.
Regards
Tom
I have been tasked with creating a product inventory module. After reading all the posts I can find on Stack Overflow, I have decided the best way is to not keep a separate, running ‘balance’, but to create one on the fly. I have attached a representation of the tables involved.
Actually, it seems like I don't have enough reputation points to include a picture, so here is a link to a dropbox file:
So I have two questions, which are somewhat related, so it seem like I should include them in the same question posting, though I am not a frequent poster and a sql noob. So please excuse me if I am displaying my ignorance with posting or sql.
First, does this look correct (I named all the columns as non-opaque as possible)? I have to create reports that show the current inventory balance for all the products and for products individually as well as a ‘Transaction Register’ with running balance.
Second, provided the first answer is yes, is this a good candidate for creating a view?
Complex question. Difficult to answer without understanding the full scope of the project. One point - I see there is no Current On-hand table. I agree that the running balance at any point in time is best to use a calculated table. It is however common practice to keep a current on-hand table. This gives you the on hand inventory and values with-out having to sum up the transaction. This is the approach in Microsoft Axapta, and other products I have worked with.
I am in the situation where I have a questionnaire that is basically just a plain excel spreadsheet with two columns:
one column with the questions and
a second column next to it where users can fill in their answers.
Each respondent has been sent a copy of the file and they will email back their files individually over a long time period. I can't wait until i have all files back; instead i would like to collect (and use) the data in Access as the files come in.
Two questions:
What is the best set up in terms of the manual steps required when a new datafile comes in. Can one just save the file in a specific folder and somehow have the column (column B) with responses "automatically" added to the main database? If not fully automatically, what could be done with just a few manual steps involved?
I realize that the shape of the questionnaire is not ideal (variables are in rows, not in columns). What's the best way to deal with that?
Thanks in advance for any pointers!
PS: I'be open to (simple) alternatives, if Access is not the best choice for this. Analysis of the data will be done in Excel again in the end.
Update, to clarify the questions below:
1) In the short - medium term, we are expecting 50-100 replies. In the long term, it will be more as, people will be asked to send updates when their situation changes - these will have to be added as new entries with a new date attached to them. i.e. it will be a continuous process with a few answers coming in every few weeks.
2) There are 80 questions on the questionnaire.
3) The Excel files come back as email attachments.
4) I was contemplating using Acess, as I thought it will a) makeit a bit cleaner and less error prone, especially as project managers might change in the future, b) allow for better handling of the data, as it will have to be mashed up and reshaped in different ways for the anlysis (e.g. it has to be un-pivoted, which i don't even know if excel can do), and c) i thought it it would give us more flexibility in the future when it comes to using different tools for analysis. i.e. each tool can just query the database. I am open for other suggestions, including Excel-only solutions, if that makes it easier, though.
5) I envision the base table to have all the 80 variables in different columns, and the answers as rows (i.e. each new colum that comes with each excel file will need to be transposed and added as a new row). There will be other data tables with the same primary key as the row identifier in this table.
6) I havn't worked on the analysis part yet, but i know that it will require a lot of reshaping and merging of data sets.
Answer 1 - Questions
You do not provide enough information to allow any one to give you pointers. Some initial questions:
How many questionaires are you expecting: 10, 100, 1000?
How many questions are there per questionaire?
How are the questionaires reaching you? You say "email back". Does this mean as an attachment or as a table in the body of the email.
You say the data is arriving as Excel files and you intend to do the analysis in Excel. Why are you storing the answers in Access? I am not saying you are wrong to store the results in Access; I just want to be convinced you have a reason.
Have you designed the planned table structure for Access?
Have you designed the structure of the Excel workbook(s) on which you will perform the analysis?
Answer 2
Firstly, I should say that I agree with Mat. I am not an expert on questionnaires but my understanding is that there are companies that will host online questionnaires and provide the results in a convenient form.
Most of the rest of this answer assumes it is too late to consider an online questionnaire or you have, for whatever reason, rejected that approach.
An Access project is, to a degree, self-documenting. You can look at its list of tables and see that Table 1 has columns A, B and C. If created properly you can see the relationships between tables. With an Excel workbook you just have a number of worksheets which can contain anything. There is no automatic documentation.
However, with both Excel and Access the author can create complete documentation that explains each table, worksheet, report and macro. If this project is going to last indefinitely and have a succession of project managers, such documentation will be essential. I can tell you from bitter experience that trying to understand a complex Access project or Excel workbook that you have inherited without proper documentation is at best difficult and at worst impossible.
Don’t even start this unless you plan to create and maintain proper documentation. I do not mean: “We will knock up something when we have finished.” Once it is finished, people will be moving onto their next projects and will have little time for boring stuff like documentation. After the event documentation also loses all the decisions and the reasons for those decisions. The next team is left wondering why their predecessors did it that way. The reason will not matter in many cases but I have seen a product destroyed by a new team removing “unnecessary complexity” they did not understand. I always kept a notebook in which I recorded what I was doing and why during the day. I encouraged my staff to do the same. I insisted something for the project log every week. The level of detail depends on the project. The question I asked myself was: “If I had just inherited this project, what happened during the last week that I would need to know?” This was in addition to an up-to-date specification for each component.
Sorry, I will get off my hobby-horse.
“In the short - medium term, we are expecting 50-100 replies. In the long term, it will be more as, people will be asked to send updates when their situation changes - these will have to be added as new entries with a new date attached to them.”
If you are going to keep a history of answers then Access will probably be a better repository than Excel. However, who is going to maintain the Access project and the central Excel workbooks? Access does not operate in the same way as Excel. Access VBA is not quite the same as Excel VBA. This will not matter if you are employing professionals experienced in both Access and Excel. But if you are employing amateurs who are picking up the necessary skills on the job then using both Access and Excel will increase what they have to learn and the likelihood that they will get confused.
If there are only 100 people/organisations submitting responses, you could merge responses and maintain one workbook per respondent to create something like:
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I am not necessarily recommending an Excel approach but it will have benefits in some circumstances. Personally, unless I was using professional programmers, I would start with an Excel only solution until I knew why I needed Access.
“I envision the base table to have all the 80 variables in different columns, and the answers as rows (i.e. each new colum that comes with each excel file will need to be transposed and added as a new row).” I interpret this to mean a row will contain:
Respondent identifier
Date
Answer to Q1
Answer to Q2
: :
Answer to Q80.
My Access is very rusty. Is there a way of accessing attribute “Answer to Q(n)” or are you going to need 80 statements to move answers in and out? I hope there is no possibility of new questions. I found updating the database when a row changed a pain. I always favoured small rows such as:
Respondent identifier
Date
Question number
Answer
There are disadvantages to having lots of small rows but I always found the advantages outweighed them.
Hope this helps.
My charity organisation has asked me to produce a alcohol units calculator just like the one illustrated on the website http://www.drinkaware.co.uk/tips-and-tools/drink-diary/.
I am going to use flash with action script. My question is as I am new to action script
Will i need a database to link the alcohol beverages to in the drop down menus'
If so how is this done or is there a easier way to achieve.
Any tutorial links or advice would be very much aprechiated.
Thanks
Peter
You may not necessarily need a database, as there are a number of ways this could be done. If you're interested in keeping the data outside the flash file, you could use a database.
Connecting Flash to an e database can get pretty complex though, and often there are better options, particularly when the project is a fairly small one like this.
I think XML is a nice option for your data in this case. You could store all the drink data in an XML file and then write AS code to populate the combo boxes with data from the XML.
This will help with creating the drop-down menus (ComboBoxes): http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/fl/controls/ComboBox.html
And here's some more info on using XML to store your data:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/as3/dev/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118a9b90204-7e6a.html
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/as3/dev/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118a9b90204-7e71.html
It could all be coded into the Flash piece also, without using a database or XML, but that's generally not considered good practice since it makes updating the data somewhat more difficult.