The rationale behind creating a database is typically to store data that you need to access for business purposes. While creating the actual database and its data entry forms and reports is a ...

Hopefully someone has a little experience with this. <BR><BR>Here is the setup:<BR>I've got an old access database that stores purchasing information from a system we used for the past 10 years. There ...

When working in Access, it may be helpful to change the field name of an older query so that the report or form is more meaningful. For example, suppose you have a patient database that includes a ...

You often need data that are stored in separate tables. For example, you may want to produce a report that gets information about flight delays from one table and boarding capacity from another.

Web query files are spreadsheets that Microsoft Excel creates using data from Web pages. For example, if your business wants to analyze stock data, a Web query can extract such data from a financial ...

Once again I've run into uncharted waters. The captain suggested that it might be prudent to hail Ars, to see if they had any advice.<BR><BR>I've got a report which requires data from the local ...

Read this SQL tutorial to learn when to use SELECT, JOIN, subselects and UNION to access multiple tables with a single statement. It’s sometimes difficult to know which SQL syntax to use when ...

Microsoft introduced its Access database product about 20 years ago, and it remains popular due to its ability to link and import data from a variety of sources. Either through ODBC or native drivers, ...

A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...