Update sql statement in access 2010

Dev Center. Explore Why Office? Android ASP. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Access for Developers. Sign in to vote. Any idea on how to write the sql statement for this Update Query? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you much for reading! Friday, July 5, PM. Van Dinh. Monday, July 8, PM.

Build a little, test a little. Thanks again for your help. I'm learning! Let's solve one problem at a time Access My code that I copied from Van that he seemed to copy from someone else will only do this: If boxE is left blank, and boxF has the value "completed" in it, will this update statement insert the value "completed" in field F, for all records that match the criteria set forth in boxA, boxB, boxC, and boxD?

Thanks again! After testing the supplied query, it only worked when I had a value in both boxE and BoxF. That's what you asked for originally. Saturday, July 6, AM.

Please post you VBA code if you need further help. This figure shows the query designer with a typical table. Double-click the fields that you want to update in the table windows. The selected fields appear in the Field row in the query design grid. This figure shows the query design grid with all the fields added. To limit the query results based on field values, in the query design grid, in the Criteria row, enter the criteria that you want to use to limit the results.

The following table shows some example criteria and explains the effect that they have on the results of a query. Note: Many of the examples in this table use wildcard characters to make the query more flexible or powerful. If your database uses the ANSI wildcard characters, use single quotation marks ' instead of pound signs. Finds all records where the exact contents of the field are not exactly equal to "Germany. Finds all records except those starting with T.

Finds all records that do not end with t. In a text field, finds all records that start with the letters A through D. Finds all records that include the letter sequence "ar". Finds all records that begin with "Maison" and contain a 5-letter second string in which the first 4 letters are "Dewe" and the last letter is unknown.

Finds all records for February 2, Uses the Date function to return all records containing today's date. Uses the Date and DateAdd functions to return all records between today's date and three months from today's date.

Returns all records that contain a zero-length string. You use zero-length strings when you need to add a value to a required field, but you don't yet know what that value is. For example, a field might require a fax number, but some of your customers might not have fax machines. In that case, you enter a pair of double quotation marks with no space between them "" instead of a number. On the Design tab, in the Results group, click Run. To add any fields that you want to include in the query design, drag the additional fields to the query design grid.

On the Design tab, in the Query Type group, click Update. This procedure shows you how to change a select query to an update query. When you do this, Access adds the Update to row in the query design grid. The following illustration shows an update query that returns all the assets purchased after January 5, and changes the location to "Warehouse 3" for all the records that meet that criterion.

Locate the field that contains the data that you want to change, and then type your expression your change criteria in the Update to row for that field. Where the ProductID values in the current table match the ProductID values in table named Order Details, this expression updates sales totals by multiplying the values in a field named Quantity by the values in a field named UnitPrice. The expression uses the DSum function because it can operate against more than one table and table field.

Truncates removes the leftmost characters in a text or numeric string and leaves the 5 rightmost characters. Note: When you run the query, you might notice that some fields are missing from your result set. If your query contains fields that you don't update, Access does not display those fields in the results, by default.

For example, you might include ID fields from two tables to help ensure that your query identifies and updates the correct records. If you don't update those ID fields, Access does not display them in the results. When you need to update data from one table to another, consider the following rule: the data types for the source and destination fields must either match or be compatible.

Furthermore, when you update data from one table to another and use compatible data types instead of matching data types, Access converts the data types of those fields in the destination table. As a result, some of the data in the destination fields may be truncated deleted. The section Restrictions on data type conversions lists the ways in which you can and cannot convert data types.

The table in this section also explains when converting a data type can change or eliminate some or all the data in a field, and what data might be eliminated. Add the names of your destination fields to the Field row of the query design grid. The steps in this section assume the use of two similar tables.

In this example, the Clients table is located in a database that you just inherited, and it contains more recent data than the Customers table. You can see that some of the manager names and addresses have changed. For that reason, you decide to update the Customers table with the data from the Clients table.

As you continue, remember that although the data types for each table field do not have to match, they must be compatible. Access must be able to convert the data in the source table into a type that the destination table can use.

In some cases, the conversion process might delete some data. For more information about restrictions when you convert data types, see the section Restrictions on data type conversions.

Note: The following steps assume the use of the two preceding sample tables. You can adapt the steps to fit your data. Double-click your source and destination tables to add them to the query. Each table appears in a window in the query designer. In most cases, Access automatically joins related fields in a query.

To manually join fields that contain related information, drag the related field from one table to the equivalent field in the other table. You can change several fields at the same time.

The following example increases the Order Amount values by 10 percent and the Freight values by 3 percent for shippers in the United Kingdom:. This example changes values in the ReportsTo field to 5 for all employee records that currently have ReportsTo values of 2. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info.