Introduction
The purpose of this tutorial is to demonstrate how you can write your own SQL statements and run them from within Microsoft Access 2007, 2010 or 2013. As with all relational databases, Microsoft Access can be programmed directly using the Structured Query Language (SQL). While most often SQL is hidden from users, for database students, MS Access provides a quick and easy way to explore SQL and write some pretty complex queries. This is especially handy if you do not have time or patience to install SQL Server, Oracle, mySQL or other larger relational database management system.
The SQL examples used in this brief tutorial are based on the simple Customer and Accounts tables created as part of my Microsoft Access 2007, 2010 and 2013 Tutorial.
You may wish to first run through that tutorial (or at least the first few sections) to create the tables and add the necessary data to make these examples work.
The next section will provide a very brief introduction of the Structured Query Language (SQL).