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    Match based on multiple values within one field.

    Like JHB says, 1000k :rolleyes: I dont need to match them all, but I need a good sample size of matches (near 50k)with as little selection bias as possible. I will continue the struggle, but I have a question.. How would a query look that selects t1.ID if t1.x, t1.y and t1.z match t2.x...
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    Match based on multiple values within one field.

    Thanks for your reply. AcademicPublications is around 480k and Patents will be 1000k. There is no common field sadly. I liked the idea of extracting the information into new columns first, as much as possible and started on it. Overal, I'd say there's 3 dominant ways of writing the...
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    Match based on multiple values within one field.

    I have been able to extract Author and title (split left and mid on " (chr34)). Both are rather messy but I'd guess that 90% is correct. The issue however is that too many observations do not have a title and FirstAuthor on itself is not good enough if its not missing. The most unique and...
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    Match based on multiple values within one field.

    I've manually looked up some matches, in attachment 1 you can find what I would see as ideal outcome table. In attachment 2 i explain it further: The columns with a red frame are from my AcademicPublications table, the columns with a blue frame are from my Patents table. You can see that...
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    Match based on multiple values within one field.

    For my study on academic research I need to match patents that refer to academic research as prior work with the actual prior work. I have two tables (see attached images below). One regarding AcademicPublications (AP), which is neatly organized with title, year, journal, volume, pages, first...
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    Find value in another table and return ID

    Thank you, I will look into it.
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    Find value in another table and return ID

    Hi there, I'm currently busy with something for my thesis as a student and I need to use Access for this. I'm not too new at access, I know how to do the very basics, let's say on the level of [if field contains *"text*", return x]. However I am struggling right now on something that shouldn't...
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