EXCEL VLOOKUP and FULL OUTER JOIN

[catlover30]

HI,

I need help with excel VLOOKUP! I am at a new job and really trying to solve this without asking anyone at work, since they seem th expect me to know this. What I am trying to acheive is the same thing as a FULL OUTER JOIN if you are familiar with sql. I tried to do this is in access, but access does not support full joins.

Anyhow: I have two email lists, one woth 2500 entries, one with 2600. They are located in same worksheet, one in column A, one in column B. Some emails match, some do not. I want to have the two lists side-by-side in a workheet, with the matching emails next to each other, and also gaps for non-mathcing emails. If I do VLOOKUP I want the missing emails in both columns. I am not at all familiar with VLOOKUP and do not even know where to begin! I appreciate any advise.

[MMcCarthy]

HI,

I need help with excel VLOOKUP! I am at a new job and really trying to solve this without asking anyone at work, since they seem th expect me to know this. What I am trying to acheive is the same thing as a FULL OUTER JOIN if you are familiar with sql. I tried to do this is in access, but access does not support full joins.

Anyhow: I have two email lists, one woth 2500 entries, one with 2600. They are located in same worksheet, one in column A, one in column B. Some emails match, some do not. I want to have the two lists side-by-side in a workheet, with the matching emails next to each other, and also gaps for non-mathcing emails. If I do VLOOKUP I want the missing emails in both columns. I am not at all familiar with VLOOKUP and do not even know where to begin! I appreciate any advise.

You can use a UNION query to achieve the results you need in Access.

SELECT Table1.email, Table2.email
FROM Table1 LEFT JOIN Table2
ON Table1.email = Table2.email
UNION
SELECT Table1.email, Table2.email
FROM Table2 LEFT JOIN Table1
ON Table2.email = Table1.email

[catlover30]

You can use a UNION query to achieve the results you need in Access.

SELECT Table1.email, Table2.email
FROM Table1 LEFT JOIN Table2
ON Table1.email = Table2.email
UNION
SELECT Table1.email, Table2.email
FROM Table2 LEFT JOIN Table1
ON Table2.email = Table1.email

Hi!

Thanks a million! It worked! That is great!

[catlover30]

It does work, but one thing, I think the second join is supposed to be RIGHT?

Thanks!

[MMcCarthy]

It does work, but one thing, I think the second join is supposed to be RIGHT?

Thanks!

You're welcome.

If you make the second join a right join you'll have to reverse the tables.

[catlover30]

Thanks! It gives me what I want!