Microsoft® Access® 2010 Inside Out

Chapter 11. 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 9, you learned how to insert, update, and delete single rows of data within a datasheet. In Chapter 10, 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 change, insert, create, or delete sets of data in your database quickly.

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

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