Chapter 10. Understanding Jet Operators and Expressions

In this chapter

  • Writing Expressions for Query Criteria and Data Validation

  • Understanding the Elements of Expressions

  • Operators

  • Literals

  • Identifiers

  • Functions

  • Intrinsic and Named Constants

  • Creating Jet Expressions

  • Troubleshooting

  • In the Real World—The Algebra of Access Expressions

Writing Expressions for Query Criteria and Data Validation

Chapter 6, “Entering, Editing, and Validating Jet Table Data,” briefly introduced you to operators and the expressions that use them when you added validation rules to table fields. Chapter 9, “Designing Queries for Jet Databases,” touched on expressions again when you devised selection criteria for the query that you created. Expressions play an important role in all ...

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