Microsoft® Office Access 2003 Inside Out

Creating a New Table with a Make-Table Query

Sometimes you might want to save as a new table the data that you extract with a select query. If you find that you keep executing the same query over and over against data that isn’t changing, it can be faster to access the data from a table rather than from the query, particularly if the query must join several tables.

In the last chapter, you created a very complex query using a Cartesian product to drive your PivotTable and PivotChart. At the end of each month or quarter, you might want to use a query like this to create a series of reports. When you have tens of thousands of reservations in your database, this complex query might take a long time to run for each report. You will save a lot of time ...