Microsoft Access: Using Update Queries

This lesson is part of the following series:

Microsoft Access & Excel: Concept Video Series (14 lessons, $217.80)
Microsoft Access: Understanding & Creating Queries (5 lessons, $89.10)

This is the fourth of a series that covers the nuts and bolts of queries in Microsoft Access. This series is designed for students and coaches seeking to learn access to compete in the UIL High School Computer Applications contest but has proven to be useful for anyone seeking to learn or brush up on their Access skills. In this lesson, we focus on the update query features and functionality in Microsoft Access.

In this video, you'll learn how update queries work, how they differ from other types of queries, what to watch out for when working with them, how to create update queries involving multiple tables and constraints, how to think about "undoing" an update query, what to watch out for with update queries, how to build in safety nets such that update queries don't inadvertently result in corrupted or double-counted data, etc.

To illustrate these things, we'll go through example update queries in Microsoft Access. Note that a starting point access document is attached as is an ending point database in order to allow you to work off of the starting document and compare your results to the ending document.

This video is screencasted. To watch it in the resolution in which it was recorded (which will offer a crisper screen resolution than the player here), move your mouse over the player and click the 100% (Actual Size) button.

This video was recorded using Microsoft Access 2010. There are very minor differences between Access 2007 and 2010, but the content covered here is the same across versions.

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• Update_Queries__-_Starting_File.accdb
• Update_Queries__-_Ending_File.accdb

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