Hey guys and gals,

I have multiple tables with absolutely no relationship to each other. They record completely different things, therefore I wouldn't think a relationship is needed whatsoever. The primary key is an ID autonumber on all of the tables.

I'm trying to create a report that will sum one field from each table. I've tried creating a query with a field from each table, for the recordsource. When I run the query however, it lists the same information multiple times. It seems to do this because there aren't the same number of records in each table, so it seems to fill the gaps by just duplicating information.

I'm not sure how to create the query so that I can use it as the record source for my report.

Any thoughts?

What you're getting is correct and normal.

In your report, use the master table for header info (e.g. customer name) and the detail table for the detail info (e.g. orders table). Access knows not to repeat the header info.

Caution, however; if you have more than one detail table, such as PO as master, and invoice and PO changes as two completely separate detail tables reporting to PO, you will need to use sub-reports instead of a simple layout.

Sam

Check how you are grouping your data and sumiing it
not see the query I think you are grouping the ID just take the First or last one and sum the Numbers you want to total.

Also if some of the results are giving you multiple or repeat rows of data that you only need to see once - change the join type
example
select table1.* from table1
INNER JOIN table2 ON table1.ID = table2.id

this shows where both sides ID are equal - possibly giving multiple or repeat records but if you change it to

select table1.* from table1
Left JOIN table2 ON table1.ID = table2.id

you would only get all the rows from table1 and related data from table2 that is relevant to table1 not repeating rcords where both sides are equal.

This may help you recordsource of the report.