We've recently discovered that a large number of the addresses on our Institutional constituents were entered weirdly, with the street address in Street Address 1 and the organizational name in Street Address 2 (see pic for example). So when we create addresses from these entries, we end up with:
John Doe
1 Main St
Business Name
City, State Zip
If I isolate into a list all of the records that need to be updated, is there a SQL process that could automatically switch Street Addresses 1 & 2 for all of those records? Or are we stuck updating these one by one?
Thanks, from a grateful SQL beginner!
Business Name in Street 2 is a pretty common convention. I wonder if it would be better to see if your process for outputting addresses could be adjusted? One concern I would have is that there are other processes which might expect a proper street address in street1, for instance duplicate identification.
Ah, I was not aware of this. The problem I ran into with the output is that it included addresses for households, individuals, and organizations, for printing on envelopes for our holiday cards. So while the individual/household envelopes looked fine with Salutation|Street 1|Street 2, the envelopes for organizations looked wonky.
I'll give this a think, but maybe it just has to stand that if we're sending one mailing list to the printer we have to do some manual cleanup in Excel first.
Could you split your list into two: one for organizations? Then you could assemble a slightly different output set to reverse the Street1/Street2 columns for that list.