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Asked: 2026-05-15T08:42:06+00:00

I have a query in MS Access (2003) that makes use of a subquery.

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I have a query in MS Access (2003) that makes use of a subquery. The subquery part looks like this:

...FROM (SELECT id, dt, details FROM all_recs WHERE def_cd="ABC-00123") AS q1,...

And when I switch to Table View to verify the results, all is OK.

Then, I wanted the result of this query to be printed on the page header for a report (the query returns a single row that is page-header stuff). I get an error because the query is suddenly re-written as:

...FROM [SELECT id, dt, details FROM all_recs WHERE def_cd="ABC-00123"; ] AS q1,...

So it’s Ok that the round brackets are automatically replaced by square brackets, Access feels it needs to do that, fine! But why is it adding the ; into the subquery, which causes it to fail?

I suppose I could just create new query objects for these subqueries, but it seems a little silly that I should have to do that.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ah, the joys of Access. The query designer in general does not play well with derived tables. There are more than a few constructs in fact, that Jet will honor that cannot be viewed properly in the query designer. In fact, the QBE will mangle (alter as you have seen) many of these complex queries. In general, you should simply assume that you cannot safely view the design of a derived table or “complex” query in the QBE but instead only in code.

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