How it works...

In this recipe, you created points in a map showing the location of crimes using a standalone database table. You did this by first adding the table into your map by right-clicking it in the database and selecting Add to Current Map.

Once you added the table to the map, you viewed the table to ensure it included the coordinate values for each record. This was as simple as opening the table and looking at the data it contained.

Lastly, you right-clicked the table in the Contents pane and selected Display XY Data. This opened the Geoprocessing pane with the Make XY Event Layer tool. Because your table used several default fields, it automatically populated the required variables. Once this tool ran, a new point layer appeared in the map showing the actual location of the crimes from the table.