Manuals/calci/DGET

DGET(database, field, criteria)

• Where 'database' is the range of cells that makes up the list or database

• 'field' shows which column is used in the function and

• 'criteria' is the range of cells that contains the specified criteria.

DGET() obtains a single value from the database that matches the specified criteria.

Description

DGET(database, field, criteria)

The function obtains a single value from the list or database that matches a specified condition.

• A 'field' argument can be expressed as "Salary" (a column name) or 3(position of the column).
• If no matching records are found, Calci returns an #N/A error message.
• If more than one records are matching with the given criteria, Calci returns an #N/A error message.
• Criteria can be any range on the Calci with minimum of one column and at least one row indicating the condition.
• The Criteria columns should not overlap the list of data.

Examples

Name	Age	Salary	Age
	<40	>8000	>32
	>30
Name	Age	Salary
John	34	5500
Bill	35	6500
Clark	29	7000
Bob	45	9000
Susan	37	4000
Jill	45	8000

=DGET(A4:C10,"Name",C1:C2) : Extracts a single value from Name column in the range A4 to C10, for the cells with Salary>8000. Returns 'Bob' as a result.

=DGET(A4:C10,2,C1:D2) : Extracts a single value from the second column (Age) in the range A4 to C10, for the cells with Salary>8000 and Age>32. Returns '45' as a result.

=DGET(A4:C10,"Salary",A1:A3) : Extracts a single value from Salary column in the range A4 to C10, for all cells from the Name column. Returns '#N/A' error message as there are more than one matching results.

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See Also

• DCOUNT
• DCOUNTA

References

• List of Aggregate Functions
• DGET