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.

In this example, Transact-SQL will create a new table with all columns from the rows in "old_table" in which the last name starts with "Ja." ...

Steps to using SQL in Microsoft Access 1. Launch Microsoft Access and open an existing database or create a new one. 2. Click on the Create tab in the ribbon at the top. 3.

Take that recordset and use it to create a new table (a temporary one) in the local Access database.<BR>3. Close the recordset.<BR>4. Run my report off the new temporary table<BR>5.