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  1. #1
    AdeshM is offline Novice
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    How to join tables to get current price of a product.

    Hello, new member here.



    Still learning queries and how to join tables because I wanted to stop using DLookups, I've read that they can be highly inefficient and unstable. I saw some posts on this forums and Allen Browne have emphasized that joined queries and subqueries are far superior.

    I have a Products table
    UPC, ItemName, Measurement

    Prices Table
    UPC, EffDate, Quantity, Price, Discount

    I am using this function to get the Current Price for a given Product

    HTML Code:
    Public Function GetPrice(inpUPC As Double, inpQuantity As Double, inpDate As Date) As Double
    
    On Error Resume Next
    
    Dim strPrice As Double
    Dim strRegPrice As Double
    Dim strDiscount As Double
    Dim strMaxDate As Date
    
    inpDate = Format(inpDate, "m/d/yyyy")
    
    strMaxDate = DMax("EFFDATE", "Prices", "UPC= " & inpUPC & " AND EFFDATE<= # " & inpDate & " # And Quantity= " & inpQuantity & " ")
    
    strPrice = DLookup("Price", "Prices", "UPC= " & inpUPC & " And EFFDATE= #" & strMaxDate & " # And Quantity= " & inpQuantity & " ")
    
    strRegPrice = DLookup("Price", "Prices", "UPC= " & inpUPC & " And EFFDATE= #" & strMaxDate & " # And Quantity= 1 ")
    
    If GetDiscount(inpUPC, inpQuantity, inpDate) = 0 Then
        GetPrice = strRegPrice
    Else
        GetPrice = strPrice
    End If
    
    End Function
    Can anyone guide me to converting this to a query?

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    Domain aggregate functions in query and on forms can cause slow performance. I have an app that uses at least a hundred DLookup() in VBA and never had an issue. If you don't use DLookup(), will have to open recordset object.

    UPC is a number field?

    Don't need to join those two tables to get price info.

    Query like:

    SELECT Prices.*
    FROM Prices INNER JOIN (SELECT UPC, Max(EffDate) AS MED FROM Prices WHERE EffDate <= [enter date] GROUP BY UPC) AS MaxD
    ON (Prices.EffDate = MaxD.MED) AND (Prices.UPC = MaxD.UPC)
    WHERE Prices.UPC=[enter upc];

    Provide sample data - can build tables in post.

    Procedure like:
    Code:
    Function GetPrice(inpUPC, inpQty, inpDate)
    Dim rs As DAO.Recordset
    Set rs = CurrentDb.OpenRecordset("SELECT Prices.* FROM Prices " & _
             "INNER JOIN (SELECT UPC, Max(EffDate) AS MED FROM Prices WHERE EffDate <=#" & inpDate & "# GROUP BY UPC) AS MaxD " & _
              "ON (Prices.EffDate = MaxD.MED) AND (Prices.UPC = MaxD.UPC) " & _
             "WHERE Prices.UPC = " & inpUPC)
    rs.FindFirst "Quantity = " & inpQty
    If inpQty = 1 Or rs!Discount <> 0 Then
        GetPrice = rs!Price
    Else
        rs.FindFirst "Quantity = 1"
        GetPrice = rs!Price
    End If
    End Function
    How to attach file: http://www.accessforums.net/showthread.php?t=70301 To provide db: copy, remove confidential data, run compact & repair, zip w/Windows Compression.

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    AdeshM is offline Novice
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    Thank you. This is some data from my prices table, I will try your code and see how it goes.


    UPC EFFDATE PRICE QUANTITY DISCOUNT VAT
    689784873309 1/1/2019 2.00 1.00 0.00 No
    689784873309 1/1/2019 1.00 24.00 18.00 No
    689784873309 1/1/2021 0.83 120.00 20.00 No


    Update: It is only returning 0.83 as the price no matter what quantity is used.

    It should be
    1 to 23 units = $2.00
    24 units = $1.00
    120 units = $0.83

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    So if order date is 7/24/2020 and quantity is 25 to 120, price would be 1.00?
    How to attach file: http://www.accessforums.net/showthread.php?t=70301 To provide db: copy, remove confidential data, run compact & repair, zip w/Windows Compression.

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    Please use # icon on toolbar when posting code snippets.
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    AdeshM is offline Novice
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    June7, I think I may need to restructure my Products Table to separate Case/Boxed/Pack Items to have their own UPC Code. There are too many variables to account for if I wanted to have fixed prices based on Quantity.

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