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Edit queries in Design view

Edit queries in Design view

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Edit queries in Design view

- [Voiceover] The query wizard gave us a good head start. But it doesn't reveal the wealth of options that are available when pulling information out of the database. For full control, you'll want to start using the Query Design View. I'm going to go ahead and up the query that we started in the last movie. And I'll just double-click on it here in the Navigation pane. Now if we come up to the View menu, you might notice that we have a option here for SQL View. Queries in Access, and indeed many other database programs, use a language called Structured Query Language or SQL. Feel free to take a peek at what that code is by selecting this option here in the View button. This is the code that the wizard created for us in the last movie. Now, if you know SQL, you can type in and modify the query here. Or you can use the graphical user interface in the Design View. Let's come back to the View button. And this time we'll switch our View to Design View instead. Now, the top portion of the…

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