Duplicated data in a report

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Brotherwarren

Hi folks,

I have re-read my earlier post asking for assistance with a report.
It made no sense to me, so I'm not surprised that no-one replied.

I'll have another go:


We maintain a database where local firms offer work experience to
pupils at our school. Once per year students choose three firms that
they are interested in working for.
I need to see a report that shows for every firm, which pupils have
selected it as a first choice, which have it as a second choice and
which as a third.


Here are the structures of my tables:


Employers Jobs
offered Pupils
==================================================================================
RefID------linked-------------------Ref
ID PupilID
Name JobID-----------
linked----------------First choice

----------------Second choice

----------------Third choice


Pupils choose a job by writing the JobID in their first, second or
third choice.
Some employers offer more than one job.



Via a query I can produce a report that shows for each job, who has
selected it as a first choice.

Whenever I try to produce a report that shows for each job, who has it
as a first choice and who as a second, I get lots of data repeated.
I've tried editing the textbox's properties in the report to remove
duplicates, but they still appear.



As said, I'm a beginner, I can produce this in Excel quiet easily, but
it runs slowly.
Someone suggested using access could speed it up?
Am I asking Access to do something impossible?

Please help, I've reached, and passed the shouting at the monitor
stage!

Cheers

Tony
 
D

Duane Hookom

Your attempt to describe your table structure didn't format very well. I
think you need to normalize your tables like:

tblEmployers (one record per employer)
=========================
EmployerID PK
....

tblEmployerJobs (1 record per job per employer)
==========================
EmpJobID PK
EmployerID FK to tblEmployers.EmployerID
JobTitle
JobCount
....

tblStudents (1 record per student)
===========================
StudentID PK
.....

tblStudentJobs (1 record per student per choice)
==========================
StudJobID PK
StudentID FK to tblStudents.StudentID
EmpJobID FK to tblEmployerJobs.EmpJobID
ChoiceNumber 1, 2, 3, or ...
StudJobStatus

This structure should provide the greatest flexibility for reporting. If you
have a non-normalized table for student choices, you can create the
normalized table using a union query.
 

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