Question

I have a spreadsheet that I am converting to an Access DB. I have a column of typed out customer names that I want to replace with the appropriate customer number from our accounting system.

I have created a table with the customer info, and a query that shows what ID needs to be inserted into the source data. What I’m looking for is:

UPDATE tblStarting_Data
SET CustomerID=x
WHERE TEMPCustomer=y

Where X and Y come from qryIDPerCustomer.

Can I use a loop? How do I reference another query?

Answer 1

Another possibility in MS Access (object names borrowed from Tomalak answer):

UPDATE tblStarting_Data, qryIDPerCustomer
SET tblStarting_Data.CustomerID=qryIDPerCustomer.CustomerID
WHERE tblStarting_Data.TEMPCustomer=qryIDPerCustomer.CustomerName