SQL multiple join statement

Question

When I had only one inner join in my SQL statement, it worked perfectly. I tried joining a second table, and now I am getting an error that says there is a syntax error (mis

Answer 1

In spite of MS SQL Server, MS Access requires parentheses for a multiple JOIN statement. Basically, JOIN is an operation between two tables. When you have more than one JOIN, in fact, you are JOINing the result of the previous JOIN to another table. This logic is cascaded for any extra JOIN. For instance, if you have JOIN operations between 4 tables, you need to write it as follows:

SELECT * FROM
    (
        ( Table1 JOIN Table2 ON Table1.column1 = Table2.column2) --result of JOIN is treated as a temp table
         JOIN Table3 ON Table1.column1 = Table3.column3
    ) --result of JOIN is treated as another temp table
    JOIN Table4 ON Table4.column4 = Table2.column2