Postgres holds one less secret from me

Today was a slow but productive day. I spent a good portion of it figuring out how to export a table from a postgres database, and I think I was altogether successful. I pulled a few columns off the orders table, which I hope will help me in creating a random sample size of customers. The difficulty is, I need to find totals on what each customer ordered, so I needed all the rows in the orders table. I selected these rows on the condition that they're tied to a customer who is labeled as a Consumer, so that likely cut out alot of unnecicery rows. The problem is, I still have millions of rows, so I'm having trouble finding a progrem that can handle all that data. I could probably write a script that would handle it for me, but I don't know enough progreming to be able to do that. Instead, I'm going to try to clean the data with microsoft access, using their embedded VBA to look at all the data. Should be an adventure, I think.

I just got Access to open the orders and customer sample databases. Next on my list of things to do is figure out how VBA in access differs from VBA in Excell. I'll be pretty happy when I get most of the data on the customer sheet, because then I can open it in excel and just work from there. I'm sure I'll do fine with Access, though.