Microsoft® Office Access 2003 Inside Out

Chapter 9. Modifying Data with Action Queries

Updating Groups of Rows

Creating a New Table with a Make-Table Query

Inserting Data from Another Table

Deleting Groups of Rows

Troubleshooting Action Queries

In Chapter 7, you learned how to insert, update, and delete single rows of data within a datasheet. In Chapter 8, you discovered that you can use queries to select the data you want—even from multiple tables. You also learned under what conditions you cannot update a field in a query. Now you can take the concept of queries one step further and use action queries to quickly change, insert, create, or delete sets of data in your database.

The four types of queries you’ll study in this chapter are

• Update query Allows you to update the fields in one or ...