Unable to create the simplest appendy query

[Faraz Azhar]

Hello

I have a table in which I have data of many employees called
Employees. Fields are ID, EmployeeName, Designation, Sector, .....
etc.

Now I have another table; TableB. This table only has 3 fields: ID,
Text1, Text2.

I am trying to create an append query in which I want to search the
Employees table by the employee's name, then using that employees ID,
I want to add some text in TableB.

So in short, I want employee ID from Employees table by searching the
employee name, then I want to add a row in TableB which will have the
employee ID i just searched and some manually added texts.

My try to create SQL was this:

INSERT INTO TableB (ID, Text1, Text2)
SELECT Employees.ID, "my text1" As EXP1, "my text #2" as EXP2
WHERE Employees.EmployeeName = "Faraz";

I know its terribly incorrect. I cant figure it out. Kindly someone
please help me out here.
THANK YOU very much !

 

[John W. Vinson]

Hello

I have a table in which I have data of many employees called
Employees. Fields are ID, EmployeeName, Designation, Sector, .....
etc.

Now I have another table; TableB. This table only has 3 fields: ID,
Text1, Text2.

I am trying to create an append query in which I want to search the
Employees table by the employee's name, then using that employees ID,
I want to add some text in TableB.

So in short, I want employee ID from Employees table by searching the
employee name, then I want to add a row in TableB which will have the
employee ID i just searched and some manually added texts.

My try to create SQL was this:

INSERT INTO TableB (ID, Text1, Text2)
SELECT Employees.ID, "my text1" As EXP1, "my text #2" as EXP2
WHERE Employees.EmployeeName = "Faraz";

I know its terribly incorrect. I cant figure it out. Kindly someone
please help me out here.
THANK YOU very much !

The only problem I see is that you're not telling Access where to select the
employeeID *FROM*: Try

INSERT INTO TableB (ID, Text1, Text2)
SELECT Employees.ID, "my text1" As EXP1, "my text #2" as EXP2
FROM Employees
WHERE Employees.EmployeeName = "Faraz";

 

[Faraz Azhar]

The only problem I see is that you're not telling Access where to select the
employeeID *FROM*: Try

INSERT INTO TableB (ID, Text1, Text2)
SELECT Employees.ID, "my text1" As EXP1, "my text #2" as EXP2
FROM Employees
WHERE Employees.EmployeeName = "Faraz";
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Yes that worked. The FROM clause was missing from my sql. Thank you
sir!