Combine rows / concatenate rows

Question

I\'m looking for an Access 2007 equivalent to SQL Server\'s COALESCE function.

In SQL Server you could do something like:

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Answer 1

I understand here that you have a table "person" with 3 records. There is nothing comparable to what you describe in Access.

In "standard" Access (DAO recordset), you will have to open a recordset and use the getrows method to have your data

Dim rs as DAO.recordset, _
    personList as String, _
    personArray() as variant

set rs = currentDb.open("Person")
set personArray = rs.getRows(rs.recordcount)

rs.close

once you have this array (it will be bidimensional), you can manipulate it to extract the "column" you'll need. There might be a smart way to extract a one-dimension array from this, so you can then use the "Join" instruction to concatenate each array value in one string.