Text truncation in queries

[cubi]

Hi,

I am using Access 2003 and one of my queries returns truncated text -- truncated from the front. I use DISTINCT in my query. When I remove DISTINCT the texts look fine.

Has anyone seen this problem before?

Thank you!

 

[SkipVought]

Hi,

Could you explain? Please post an example of the SOURCE DATA, SQL, and the query results.

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[PHV]

Has the original truncated text more than 255 characters ?

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[dhookom]

Why can't you just leave the "Distinct" out of the query. Distinct is similar to Group By. You might want to try DISTINCTROW.

Duane
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[cubi]

The query is kind of long, but it looks like:

SELECT DISTINCT AGENCY_ID, PROGRAM_ID, ACTIVITY_ID, ... DESCRIPTION
FROM AGENCY, PROGRAM, ACTIVITY, ...
WHERE ...

I used DISTINCT to get unique values. The text value in the DESCRIPTION field es truncated.

Without DISTINCT the query returns 3 times as many rows due to duplication. I also tried DISTINCTROW, which eliminates some duplication, but not exactly what I want.

Thank you all for your input.

 

[PHV]

Without DISTINCT the query returns 3 times as many rows due to duplication
Even with JOIN clauses ?

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[dhookom]

Use:
GROUP BY AGENCY_ID, PROGRAM_ID, ACTIVITY_ID, ...
With a column of First([Description]).

You could also try create the distinct query first without the Description field. Then create another query that is based on the distinct query and adds the table/query with the Description field.

Duane
MS Access MVP
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