Question

Im using MS Access 2003 and within it I have maybe 100 queries in total; I’ve been tasked with changing a few names in one of the tables and I don’t know exactly how many queries use that particular table.

My question is – is there anyway in Access to automatically change the field names in a table used in multiple queries without having to manually update the queries to reflect the change?

For example say query A does this:

SELECT name
FROM tblA
WHERE ...

If i changed the name in the table is there a way to reflect this across all the queries?

Thanks

Answer 1

This is about the only case where Track Name Autocorrect and Perform Name Autocorrect is a good idea.

Why should I use name AutoCorrect? When you work in a database that
has a design that is frequently changed by users, database objects can
stop working if the design of other database objects changes. One way
this can occur is when the name of an object changes, but that change
is not accompanied by corresponding changes to objects that depend on
the original object.

For example, if you create a query that is based on a table named
Customers, and the name of the table is later changed to Customer, the
query that you created stops working because of this name change.
Nothing else is wrong with the query, and if you correct the table
name in the query design, the query works again.

The name AutoCorrect feature can track name changes for you, and can
automatically correct the names of forms, reports, tables, queries,
fields, or controls, such as text boxes.

— http://office.microsoft.com/en-ie/access-help/set-name-autocorrect-options-HA010256413.aspx