Is there a way to keep all records from one table in Access Query?

[Maggie Barr]

Hello, and thank you for helping if you can.
I am new to Access, and I am trying to use it to do some data handling before I bring it into Power Query and Power Pivot. I am running a query to merge data from some tables (like a VLOOKUP), and it is reducing the number of records because one table does not always have a match to one of the lookup tables. Is there a way to set criteria so all the records in one table are kept and then show blanks or N/A for no match to the lookup table columns being brought over. I need the full data set.
Thank you for your time,
Maggie Barr

 

[ranman256]

you want an OUTER join query.
in the query, join the 2 tables,
bring down the same field from both tables, (that you joined)
dbl-click the join line,
set to ALL records from one table, Some records from the other
Ok
run the query, you will see all records in the 1 table and nulls where the data is missing in the other.

If you want to see ONLY the missing records, under the criteria put NULL and you will get only the missing recs.

 

[silentwolf]

Hi,

in the query you need to doppel click on the join and than change it to one of those options then you get all data even there are no data in the look up table.


HTH

 

[Maggie Barr]

ranman256,
Thank you for this. Yes that worked. I had actually read something about that, and I went in and set it for that in the main relationships tables, but it hadn't updated to the relationships within the query. Doing it in the query design view worked.
Thank you so much, and have a great day!
Maggie