Hi All,
I need a bit of help with something I am trying to do.
I am building a ‘macro’ type solution so that a txt file and a csv file can be compared for duplicate numbers.
What I have done so far is create two upload functions that load the data from the files to their own tables in a database.
So, one table for the txt file and one for the csv file.
What I need to do now is ‘wash’ the tables so that any duplicates are removed, leaving a set of numbers that can be exported to an excel file for the user.
I’m thinking that I need to do a select query for the first table and run the results, individually, through a loop. In that loop I do a second select query for the other table and compare the two. Whatever is a duplicated gets deleted from both tables and whatever isn’t is saved for the export.
Is this the right method?
Is anyone able to help me get started on it at all, or ‘point me in the right direction’?!
Thanks
Em