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Understand comparison operators

Understand comparison operators

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Understand comparison operators

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- [Voiceover] When the fields in your table are of a numerical data type, Access provides additional operators that you can use when writing your queries. One type is called the comparison operators, and they sort and qualify your data based off of the numerical value of the record. Comparison operators are also called relational operators. They don't simply match in exact value. Comparison operators return records that match the relationship to a value. For instance, whether it's greater than the value you specified, or less than, or equal to. Let's take a look at this by creating a new query in Design view, and this time I'm gonna base it off of the Products table. I'll double-click on it to add it, and close the Show Table window. From the Products table, I wanna add in all of these fields, so I'll just double-click on each one of these, and that'll add them into the grid down below. There's price. Let's say I wanted to find an exact match, I wanted to find all of the products that…

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