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Old April 15th, 2010, 08:43 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.gettingstarted
PlarfySoober
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Default Creating a "Greater Than Date" criterion

I have created a query, all the fields from an existing table.

One field has a date format. I want to select for records in which that
field contains data.

I tried "01/01/2000", but no joy. Message was "Data type mismatch in query
expression." This is the way to create this criteria, AFAICT in the Help
file, where it shows '01 Jan 1995' as the proper way to select for later
dates than that one. But mine doesn't work.

Thanks in advance.

Don.

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Old April 15th, 2010, 08:48 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.gettingstarted
Douglas J. Steele[_3_]
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Default Creating a "Greater Than Date" criterion

Dates need tobe delimited with #, not quotes.

Try

#01/01/2000#


or

#01 Jan 1995#


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"PlarfySoober" wrote in message
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I have created a query, all the fields from an existing table.

One field has a date format. I want to select for records in which that
field contains data.

I tried "01/01/2000", but no joy. Message was "Data type mismatch in
query
expression." This is the way to create this criteria, AFAICT in the Help
file, where it shows '01 Jan 1995' as the proper way to select for later
dates than that one. But mine doesn't work.

Thanks in advance.

Don.



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Old April 15th, 2010, 11:36 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.gettingstarted
PlarfySoober
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Default Creating a "Greater Than Date" criterion

Just as you said. And the Help file is wrong, because it makes no mention of
using ## instead of '' or "". Thank you very much.

"Douglas J. Steele" wrote:

Dates need tobe delimited with #, not quotes.

Try

#01/01/2000#


or

#01 Jan 1995#


--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
http://www.AccessMVP.com/DJSteele
(no e-mails, please!)

"PlarfySoober" wrote in message
...
I have created a query, all the fields from an existing table.

One field has a date format. I want to select for records in which that
field contains data.

I tried "01/01/2000", but no joy. Message was "Data type mismatch in
query
expression." This is the way to create this criteria, AFAICT in the Help
file, where it shows '01 Jan 1995' as the proper way to select for later
dates than that one. But mine doesn't work.

Thanks in advance.

Don.



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