merging files

[Jay Schille]

Dear Rob,
I set up the radio station's CD database. The reports of my demise are
premature. I'll merge the databases on Friday unless a demise intervenes.

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Rob Bier <qnaweb at provue.com> wrote:

> For reasons not worth going into, the community radio station where I
> volunteer has at least 38 copies of its CD database.  Many of the records in
> each copy duplicate those in other copies; some records exist only in a
> single copy.  All new records now are being entered into the same database.
>  Obviously, it would be preferable to have all records (more than 30,000 of
> them) in the same place.  How do we do this?  Can the existing files be
> merged so that only unique records remain in the merged file, so that
> duplicates are eliminated?  Are there other ways to clean up what years of
> sloppy habits have caused?
>
> I have reviewed the Panorama Handbook without finding any clues.  Panorama
> Help was not loaded when the program was installed.  The person who set up
> the system  has departed this life.
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