Question

I am having a table with records like this in MS Access:

ID  field2  field3  field4  field5
1   345       asr
2             ase     567    788
3   456       ghy
4             jki     568    899
5   235       yui
6             hju     456    456

I want to merge it to get a table like this:

ID      field2  field3  field4  field5
1           345 asrase     567    788
3           456 ghyjki     568    899
5           235 yuihju     456    456

Is this possible with queries?

Answer 1

Assuming the rows continue like the example, this query would do:

select a.id, 
    a.field2, 
    a.field3 + Iif(IsNull(b.field3),'',b.field3), 
    b.field4, 
    b.field5
from table1 a
left join table1 b on b.id = a.id + 1
where a.field2 is not null

It joins the table on itself, looking for the next row. It combines both rows to produce the desired result.