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The document discusses how to add alternate criteria to MS Access queries using the OR operator or specifying criteria in multiple rows of the query design grid. It provides an example of a query with alternate criteria on the LastName field to retrieve employees with last names of either 'Pollard' or 'Manning', and then expands it to add a criterion on the job title field as well.

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MS Access - Alternate Criteria - Tutorialspoint

The document discusses how to add alternate criteria to MS Access queries using the OR operator or specifying criteria in multiple rows of the query design grid. It provides an example of a query with alternate criteria on the LastName field to retrieve employees with last names of either 'Pollard' or 'Manning', and then expands it to add a criterion on the job title field as well.

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MS Access - Alternate Criteria

Queries come in with many advantages. You can save and run the same query again and
again, and a lot of times you want to add alternate criteria.

You can add alternate criteria in the following two ways −


You can use the OR operator to combine two sets of criteria.
You can also use the query design grid, but instead of specifying criteria on the same
line, you will need to separate it in multiple row.

Example
Let us look at a simple example of alternate criteria. Open database and in the Create tab select
Query Design.

Double-click on tblEmployee and close the Show Table dialog box.


Double-click on all the field you want to see as query result.

You can now see that alternate criterion is specified in different rows of the LastName field.
When you run this query, you will see the employees whose last name is either Pollard or
Manning. Let us now run this query.
As you can see that only two employees have been retrieved, because of the alternate criteria.
If you want to add alternate criteria in multiple fields then you will have to use different rows for
all the fields. Let us now add another alternate criterion where we can retrieve information for
employees whose last name is either Pollard or Manning or the job title is Accounting
Assistant.
Let us now run this query.

You will now see the following result.

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