Read this SQL tutorial to learn when to use SELECT, JOIN, subselects and UNION to access multiple tables with a single statement.

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.

The DICTIONARY tables component is specified in the FROM clause of a SELECT statement. DICTIONARY is a reserved libref for use only in PROC SQL. Data from DICTIONARY tables are generated at run time.

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." ...

Using the query from the last example, you can build a new table from the results of your latest query. Select OK to return to the SQL QUERY TABLES window. SAMPLE.WAGE is now in the list of Available ...