Repeat records according to a quantity field - ms-access

Question

I have an Excel sheet which I receive from my customer and I get imported to Access and I would call that table [tblCustomer] and that would look something like this:
ProductID Name Expire date SumofQty
------------ ----------- --------------- --------
3 Flour 13-Dec-2013 6
6 Meat 20-Jan-2014 10
So the table contain maybe 100 items. I want in the same table or another table to copy the same record 6 times as per SumofQty and than the next record copy it 10 times and so on.
I need this cause I will create labels for each product right now I'm doing manually.

Answer 1

You can do that in a Query quite easily by using a "Numbers table". Create a table named [Numbers] in your database consisting of a single field named [n] that has a field type of Numeric (Long Integer). Create rows in that table with values 1, 2, 3, ... up to a number that well exceeds the largest value you ever expect to see in [tblCustomer].[SumofQty]. In my test I used 2500, so my [Numbers] table looks like
n
----
1
2
3
...
2499
2500
Then, for sample data in table [tblCustomer]
ProductID Name Expire date SumofQty
--------- ----- ----------- --------
3 Flour 2013-12-13 6
6 Meat 2014-01-20 10
the query
SELECT tblCustomer.*
FROM
tblCustomer
INNER JOIN
Numbers
ON Numbers.n <= tblCustomer.SumofQty
returns
ProductID Name Expire date SumofQty
--------- ----- ----------- --------
3 Flour 2013-12-13 6
3 Flour 2013-12-13 6
3 Flour 2013-12-13 6
3 Flour 2013-12-13 6
3 Flour 2013-12-13 6
3 Flour 2013-12-13 6
6 Meat 2014-01-20 10
6 Meat 2014-01-20 10
6 Meat 2014-01-20 10
6 Meat 2014-01-20 10
6 Meat 2014-01-20 10
6 Meat 2014-01-20 10
6 Meat 2014-01-20 10
6 Meat 2014-01-20 10
6 Meat 2014-01-20 10
6 Meat 2014-01-20 10

Answer 2

Here's the solution using Erik von Asmuth's comment which pointed to an answer originally created by Gustav.
SELECT t.*
FROM tblCustomer AS t
INNER JOIN (SELECT DISTINCT
[Hundreds]+[Tens]+[Ones] AS Factor,
100*Abs(Hundo.id Mod 10) AS Hundreds,
10*Abs(Deca.id Mod 10) AS Tens,
Abs(Uno.id Mod 10) AS Ones
FROM
msysobjects AS Uno,
msysobjects AS Deca,
msysobjects As Hundo
WHERE Abs(Deca.id Mod 10) <> 0
or Abs(Uno.id Mod 10) <> 0
or Abs(Hundo.id Mod 10) <> 0) AS sq on sq.Factor <= t.SumofQty
I added the hundreds column as well because I think I'm probably going to need it. My method also filters out 0 in the sub query, otherwise I was getting 2 rows for things with a quantity of 1.