I received an interesting question yesterday from a potential customer.
They are migrating all their Oracle PeopleSoft data to SAP.
(They are exporting from PeopleSoft into Excel, importing it into Access to tweak it, and exporting to csv from Access to upload to SAP)
Basically, how to take 1 (PeopleSoft) row and make it into multiple rows (SAP)?
For example:
PeopleSoft format: A B -200 0 500
to SAP format:
A B -200 0 0
A B 0 0 0
A B 0 0 500
So I decided to make a blog post on it so others may benefit:
Here is what the source would look like:
And here is what the result would look like:
…and then we’ll save the table to a csv file to upload to SAP.
Here is the code to get the data into the tblSAP:
Sub SAPFormat() Dim rst As Recordset Dim strInsSQL As String Dim intCounter As Integer Dim dblNegative As Double Dim dblZero As Double Dim dblPositive As Double Set rst = CurrentDb.OpenRecordset("SELECT Col1, Number1,Number2,Number3 FROM tblPeopleSoft") CurrentDb.Execute "DELETE * FROM tblSAP" rst.MoveFirst Do Until rst.EOF For intCounter = 1 To 3 'reset the variables dblNegative = 0 dblZero = 0 dblPositive = 0 'evaluate the numbers Select Case intCounter Case 1 'evaluate number 1 If rst("Number1") < 0 Then dblNegative = rst("Number1") dblZero = 0 dblPositive = 0 End If If rst("Number1") = 0 Then dblNegative = 0 dblZero = rst("Number1") dblPositive = 0 End If If rst("Number1") > 0 Then dblNegative = 0 dblZero = 0 dblPositive = rst("Number1") End If 'stay in the loop but insert the record GoTo InsertThis Case 2 'evaluate number 2 If rst("Number2") < 0 Then dblNegative = rst("Number2") dblZero = 0 dblPositive = 0 End If If rst("Number2") = 0 Then dblNegative = 0 dblZero = rst("Number2") dblPositive = 0 End If If rst("Number2") > 0 Then dblNegative = 0 dblZero = 0 dblPositive = rst("Number2") End If 'stay in the loop but insert the record GoTo InsertThis Case 3 'evaluate number 3 If rst("Number3") < 0 Then dblNegative = rst("Number3") dblZero = 0 dblPositive = 0 End If If rst("Number3") = 0 Then dblNegative = 0 dblZero = rst("Number3") dblPositive = 0 End If If rst("Number3") > 0 Then dblNegative = 0 dblZero = 0 dblPositive = rst("Number3") End If 'stay in the loop but insert the record GoTo InsertThis End Select 'label to insert the record InsertThis: strInsSQL = "INSERT INTO tblSAP ( Col1, Negative, Zero, Positive ) " strInsSQL = strInsSQL & " VALUES (" strInsSQL = strInsSQL & "'" & rst("Col1") & "'," strInsSQL = strInsSQL & dblNegative & "," strInsSQL = strInsSQL & dblZero & "," strInsSQL = strInsSQL & dblPositive & ")" CurrentDb.Execute strInsSQL Next intCounter rst.MoveNext Loop 'clean up rst.Close Set rst = Nothing End Sub
Please let me know if you find some fault in my logic.
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