merging files

[Michael]

Now THAT is serendipity!

michael

On 11/06/2008, at 7:59 PM, Jay Schille wrote:

> 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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