10 Common Data Structures - Got a "use example"? (1 Viewer)

Not just your tables, there are other data structures out there. Mind you I can't think of a "use example" in MS Access. Can you think of one?

“10 Common Data Structures Explained with Videos + Exercises”

Tony,

Here is a link to some data structures with vba. The author's site is Excel oriented, not Access. But structures can/could be adapted.

Here is link to a recent video/webinar by Paul Kelly on Dictionary (also an Excel oriented site).

jdraw said:

Tony,

Here is a link to some data structures with vba. The author's site is Excel oriented, not Access. But structures can/could be adapted.

Here is link to a recent video/webinar by Paul Kelly on Dictionary (also an Excel oriented site).

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Hi Jack, thank you for pointing me to that video very interesting.

I note that the "use" was to extract the data from an Excel spreadsheet and put it in a dictionary.

I couldn't help thinking that I wouldn't need a dictionary because I could access an MS Access table directly with SQL, and/or record set loops. That got me to thinking, I'm pretty sure it's possible to interrogate Excel, "Cell data" as an actual record set.

I mention this because I think that might be a better route for an MS Access VBA programmer who found themselves working in Excel.

I don't actually know as I haven't tried either record sets or dictionaries in Excel however I thought it worth mentioning...

Might well be my next experiment!

Tony,
I am not an excel person -I dabble with it - but only very surface stuff.
My point was that such data structures exist and can be accessed/used with Access.

The authors of both sites I mentioned are showing some code/webinars etc, but behind the scenes they are offering excel-oriented books/ebooks for sale. I'm sure they are well done and useful -if you were working in Excel.

It's the concepts of the vba and these structures that I found interesting and could be used with Access or any other Office product supporting vba..

jdraw said:

My point was that such data structures exist and can be accessed/used with Access.

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Yes I'm with you on that. And thank you again for the link. I found the link I posted about the different data structures and I was struck by the fact that I never seem to have a need to use them.

In other words I was wondering if there is a particular case in MS Access where you would use them.

It's like I am lacking something from my repertoire, but then I don't have anywhere to apply it. That's what got me thinking, I'm probably doing everything I need to do already but in a different way...

The thing is, if I'm going to get proficient in another language, I'm going to need to be comfortable with these different ways of doing things.

It's the same old story, you're much better off learning techniques in the language you are familiar with.

So that should be my next step, next time I think of using a recordset loop, I'm going to try it with a Dictionary and a Class Module... (maybe!)

Hi Tony,

I studied data structures as a course back in university. We used PL/1 back then and had assignments with queues, stacks, FIFO/LIFO and have used Arrays since introduced in Fortran in the 60's.

If you look at any of the posts that deal with JSON and VBA, you will find use of Dictionary and Collections.
It would make a great class module.

Good luck.