Use a crosstab query to create monthly summary reports

After you've built a few Access database applications, you inevitably come up against this problem: the arrangement of your data in tables is not the arrangement you want on reports. Frequently, values appear vertically in a table, but you want them to appear horizontally on the report. Luckily, crosstab queries provide a quick way to "pivot" the data to the way you want it. Luke Chung of FMS, Inc. provides a great tutorial on crosstabs in this article on the FMS site.

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  • Crosstab Queries are one of my favourite aspects of Access. Just keep in mind that this is Jet SQL syntax and not supported in other environments, e.g., T-SQL. Nice write-up.

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