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What is the best way to select the top 5 records from a field configured as
DATE/TIME in Access 2007? I know I can select * and order by, to get the last records. I only need the last 5 by the date they were added to the table. Thanks |
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"Striker" wrote in message
... What is the best way to select the top 5 records from a field configured as DATE/TIME in Access 2007? I know I can select * and order by, to get the last records. I only need the last 5 by the date they were added to the table. If I understand you correctl, the query would be along these lines: SELECT TOP 5 * FROM [MyTable] ORDER BY [MyDateTimeField] DESC -- Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP www.datagnostics.com (please reply to the newsgroup) |
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OK, so it's the same as SQL. I was doing that as a select top 10. it kept
returning 16 records. I did notice some of the dates were the same on the records however. "Dirk Goldgar" wrote in message ... "Striker" wrote in message ... What is the best way to select the top 5 records from a field configured as DATE/TIME in Access 2007? I know I can select * and order by, to get the last records. I only need the last 5 by the date they were added to the table. If I understand you correctl, the query would be along these lines: SELECT TOP 5 * FROM [MyTable] ORDER BY [MyDateTimeField] DESC -- Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP www.datagnostics.com (please reply to the newsgroup) |
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"Striker" wrote in message
... OK, so it's the same as SQL. I was doing that as a select top 10. it kept returning 16 records. I did notice some of the dates were the same on the records however. The TOP predicate makes no attempt to distinguish among records that have the same value in the ORDER BY field(s). It returns them all. If you need to return exactly 5 (or whatever), you can include the table's primary key as a second ORDER BY field. Of course, then you have to understand that your "top 5" aren't really an exclusive set. -- Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP www.datagnostics.com (please reply to the newsgroup) |
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