Learn how to use SQL in Microsoft Access with this step-by-step guide, complete with examples, FAQs, and tips for better database management.

The SAS/ACCESS interface to these files is read-only, so the SELECT statement is the only one of the four PROC SQL statements (in this section) that can reference a view descriptor based on DIF, WK n, ...

The EXECUTE statement sends dynamic non-query, DBMS-specific SQL statements to the DBMS and processes those statements. In some SAS/ACCESS interfaces, you can issue an EXECUTE statement directly ...

You can write create table statements in access, but at least in Access XP and before, you can't write one that will fully describe a table. Many of the access specific features are inaccessible.

Use saved queries as opposed to SQL statements as the data sources for Access objects. The wizard will create a corresponding SQL Server object for each saved query.

SQL lets you use one command to quickly create a new table containing a subset of records from a larger table while working in Access. Sound complicated? It's not, as Mary Ann Richardson shows us.