Showing posts with label design view. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design view. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Access can't append all the records in the append query

I am using tables individual by month. After converting my Select query to a Make Table query I managed to leave the Sales Dollars field blank (at this point it went unnoticed) . I continued, and created a Select query from the New Table (created from the Make Table query) that required the user to enter a parameter value (month) and then converted the query into an Append Query. At this point I ran into the
Error: "Access can't append all the records in the append query."
Research: I researched two sites one by Allen Browne and the other by Microsoft. Allen Browne's site was the most informative on understanding this error.

I recognized that the "null fields" or blank fields were the cause of the problem.
At this point I back-tracked and noticed that my Sales Dollars field was blank.
Hypothesis: Fixing the Sales Dollars field will allow all the fields to be appended.

I recreated the query that was originally made into a table. I ensured that Sum was selected in the Total section in Design View.
Solution: Fixing the Sales Dollars field allowed all the fields to be appended.

Wrap-up: make sure all your fields match with "Sums" and the appropriate "properties" and don't attempt to match blank sells with content cells.