Transfering Data

Hello everyone,

I have still an issue with tranfsfering data from two tabels to another two tables which have parental relationship. A while a go on this forum someone have suggested to me to use the append query but that only works to append to one table, which is not my case.

If I don't transfer these two tables together or at the same time, they will loose their relationship because of their relationship which is auto number.

I have tried to modify the append query SQL and didn't work for me. Please someone help me solve this problem or tell me other alternative way of doing this. Somone look at the following modified append query and see where I made a mistake or cannot do it this way:

INSERT INTO tblSanTV ( INSPNO, MAINLINE, [US MH ID#], [DS MH ID#], [ADDRESS#], [STREET NAME], [CROSSING STREET], [FL TYPE], [P SIZE], [MT TYPE], [MH DEPTH], [P LENGTH], [SITE CONDITION], REVERSE, HEADING, [INSP DATE], [TAPE#], [TAPE START], [TAPE STOP], [INSPECTOR NAME], [PROJECT NAME], [PROJECT NUMBER], [REP TYPE], [REP PRIORITY])
INSERT INTO tblSanTVmk (DISTFROM, DISTTO, [COUNTER], [OBS TYPE], CATEGORY, DIRECTION, [SC PERMIT#], COMMENTS, [PHOTO CLIP] )
SELECT SANTV2.[INSP#], SANTV2.[MAINLINE ID#], SANTV2.[US MH ID#], SANTV2.[DS MH ID#], SANTV2.[ADDRESS#], SANTV2.[STREET NAME], SANTV2.[CROSS STREET], SANTV2.[FL TYPE], SANTV2.[P SIZE], SANTV2.[MT TYPE], SANTV2.[MH DEPTH], SANTV2.[P LENGTH], SANTV2.[SITE CONDITION], SANTV2.REVERSE, SANTV2.HEADING, SANTV2.[INSP DATE], SANTV2.[TAPE#], SANTV2.[TAPE START], SANTV2.[TAPE STOP], SANTV2.INSPECTOR, SANTV2.[PROJECT NAME], SANTV2.[PROJECT#], SANTV2.[REP TYPE], SANTV2.[REP PRIORITY], tblSanTVmk2.DISTFROM, tblSanTVmk2.DISTTO, tblSanTVmk2.COUNTER, tblSanTVmk2.[OBS TYPE], tblSanTVmk2.CATEGORY, tblSanTVmk2.DIRECTION, tblSanTVmk2.[SC PERMIT#], tblSanTVmk2.COMMENTS, tblSanTVmk2.[PHOTO CLIP]
FROM SANTV2 INNER JOIN tblSanTVmk2 ON SANTV2.[INSP#] = tblSanTVmk2.[INSP#]
WITH OWNERACCESS OPTION;

I tried to modify the append query to the above format but didn't work. I even tried "inner join" to put the above table together but I could be able to make it work. Anybody knows how to solve this, please help. Thanks.

Girma