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     Posted: 18 Aug 2014 at 4:44am
Hi - hoping someone can help.
 
I have a number of fields of data showing employee names. These names can differ depending on which country i al looking at.
 
What I need is a formula that looks at each column and if a name appears in any column it returns the value 1. So I can get a total at the end of the report for each employee.
 
I can do this easily by hard coding in a formula for each employyee using running totals but this is not very flexible when we have a large ever changing work force.
 
Any idea of how I can do this in a more clever and flexible way?
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Quote DBlank Replybullet Posted: 18 Aug 2014 at 6:00am

Confused by the data set...

First it sounds like you have different name columns, 1 per country.
I would assume if a row exists that at least one of those columns would have a name, other wise why would the row exist, unless you are tracking other resources in the same table.
Do you have an employee ID field and an 'active' field? I owuld think the DB should be able to indicate curretn employess from past employees unless they get deleted?
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Quote RoadRunner Replybullet Posted: 18 Aug 2014 at 6:29am
Hi - sorry to not be more clear.
 
I have at least 3 colums of names.
 
e.g. John       Trudi      Sam
        Trudi      Trudi      John
 
Any name could appear in any column (or not at all). If a name appears in a row this should count as 1 and I need to know how many rows each name appears in.
 
So above
 
John = 2
Trudi - 2
Sam - 1
 
 
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Quote DBlank Replybullet Posted: 18 Aug 2014 at 8:09am

if you have a finite amount of columns and and infinite amount of possible names I think I would I use a union query to alter the data set to make it simple

something like:
select name, count(distinct Counter) from
(
select Col1NameField as Name, Col1NameField+'Col1' as Counter from table
UNION
select Col2NameField as Name, Col2NameField+'Col2' as Counter from table
UNION
select Col3NameField as Name, Col3NameField+'Col3' as Counter from table
) as NewTable
group by newtable.Name


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