Mark Simms
marksimms at verizon.net
Mon Feb 20 09:19:57 CST 2012
Sorry Gary, I disagree. Even in Access 2010, there is still no ability to embed comments in the SQL. On top of that, any SQL formatting gets lost. And now couple that with a huge bug where AC2010 will actually CHANGE YOUR SQL without warning. That one bit me (embarrassingly so) at a client's location just last week. I now have created a procedure to store each Query's SQL in a text file...so it can be "restored". Bottomline: DO NOT USE ACCESS FOR COMPLEX QUERIES....YOU'RE GONNA GET BURNT. > I have offered to show people at my shop how to do queries in Access > but nobody takes me up on it. Things that I can whip out in a few > moments take hours to do using straight SQL on an Oracle Database > unless they are very simple. Anything involving 3 or 4 tables I will > have done far faster than they will. I love the query builder in > Access.