Create 3 tables in 1 "Make Table" query

[gmazza76]

Good morning,

This maybe a daft question, but instead of making 3 queries to create 3 new tables can I create 1 query that will automatically "append" or "Make Table" to 3 existing tables?

thanks
Gavin

 

[Joe4]

Good morning,

This maybe a daft question, but instead of making 3 queries to create 3 new tables can I create 1 query that will automatically "append" or "Make Table" to 3 existing tables?

thanks
Gavin

I am pretty sure that a Make Table or Append Query can only write to a single table.
So if you want to write to three different tables, I believe you will need three different action queries.

Note that if you set them all up, you can add them all to a single Macro, so you can run all three with a single click.

 

[gmazza76]

I am pretty sure that a Make Table or Append Query can only write to a single table.
So if you want to write to three different tables, I believe you will need three different action queries.

Note that if you set them all up, you can add them all to a single Macro, so you can run all three with a single click.

Cheers @Joe4 I thought as much just needed to check

 

[welshgasman]

Are the fields the same for all three queries?, if so, perhaps may we ask why?

 

[gmazza76]

All fields are the same @welshgasman, I can do 3 queries but I wanted to make things easier for the team I work on so they can link the files that are created (1 file per area for loading purposes) so that they have a file that doesn't lock and feeds a hierarchy into their business reports that is the same.

 

[welshgasman]

All fields are the same @welshgasman, I can do 3 queries but I wanted to make things easier for the team I work on so they can link the files that are created (1 file per area for loading purposes) so that they have a file that doesn't lock and feeds a hierarchy into their business reports that is the same.

That would raise the question of normalization?, as you should likely have the one table with a field to identify what 'table' it was meant to be?

My thoughts were to amend the qdf of one query with VBA, but that is just so you do not need to maintain 3 queries. It would still need to run 3 times.