>I have been directed to generate a special table from an existing table. Each record has a year value in it. The new table should display one record with a year range (e.g. Beg_year field and End_year field) if all fields except year are identical. I have done this fairly easily but I suspect there may be a better method.
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>With the table indexed appropriately, I loop through the database and compare the fields from one record to the next and store the year values in appropriate
>variables. If there is a change in any field other than the year field, then
>I write a record to a second table with the year range and other values.
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>The comparison of one record to the next is fairly burdensome. Is there a way to compare entire records more easily? Is there an entirely different method that would be more effective?
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>Thanks.

I would probably do something with SQL like Dore suggested, but for another idea, you could scatter each of the records to objects, and use COMPOBJ()...