Action argument | Description |
SQL Statement | The SQL statement for the action query or data-definition query you want to run. The maximum length of this statement is 256 characters. This is a required argument. |
Use Transaction | Select Yes to include this query in a transaction. Select No if you don't want to use a transaction. The default is Yes. Previous versions of Microsoft Access have always included the query in a transaction when you ran this action. If you select No for this argument, the query may run faster. |
Query type | SQL statement |
Action | |
Append | INSERT INTO |
Delete | DELETE |
Make-table | SELECT...INTO |
Update | UPDATE |
Data-definition (SQL-specific) | |
Create a table | CREATE TABLE |
Alter a table | ALTER TABLE |
Delete a table | DROP TABLE |
Create an index | CREATE INDEX |
Delete an index | DROP INDEX |