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    Select queries return data from a database based on specified fields and criteria, while action queries perform operations like adding, deleting, or editing data in a database. Action query types include update queries to change field values meeting criteria, append queries to add records from source tables to a destination table, make table queries to extract subsets of data, and delete queries to remove records meeting criteria.

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    Select queries return data from a database based on specified fields and criteria, while action queries perform operations like adding, deleting, or editing data in a database. Action query types include update queries to change field values meeting criteria, append queries to add records from source tables to a destination table, make table queries to extract subsets of data, and delete queries to remove records meeting criteria.

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    Select Query vs.

    Action Query
    Wednesday, April 11, 2012 1:31 PM

    Select Query - The types of queries we have created all along this semester where you select fields and criteria to include in the query and data as a result is returned. What is an Action Query?

    -What we'll do hence forth -Action queries perform some sort of action such as adding , deleting, or editing existing data in a DB. -For data maintenance purposes

    Action Query types


    Update Query o Change/ Alter data values in a field for all records that meet specific criteria Append Query o Selects records from one or more source tables and adds them to an existing destination table. Make table Query o Can be used for data retention purposes or to extract a specific sub-set of data. Delete Query o Selects records from a specified table based on pre-defined criteria and then deletes those records.

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