SQL lets you use one command to quickly create a new table containing a subset of records from a larger table while working in Access. Sound complicated? It's not, as Mary Ann Richardson shows us.

In this example, Transact-SQL will create a new table with all columns from the rows in "old_table" in which the last name starts with "Ja." Advertisement. Article continues below this ad.

INSERT INTO Employee (EMP_ID, Name, Salary, Age) VALUES (1, 'John Doe', 55000.00, 30); You can see the prompt and code in Figure B . Figure B: Asking Microsoft Copilot how to insert a record into ...