Date Issue

[Qaspec]

I have a table that is linked to another database. The
date information in the date column is in General Date
Format with specific times included. I want my query to
return results based on a query depending on the name or
number of the month selected from a control on a form. How
can I do this?

The form is "mainform"
the control is "selmonth"
and the qry is "qryinfo"

any help would be appreciated.

 

[John Viescas]

Keep in mind that the Format of the field has nothing to do with working
with the actual underlying data. A Date/Time data type uses the integer
part to count days since December 30, 1899, and the fractional part is the
time in fractions of a day - accurate to seconds.

Assuming "selmonth" is a number 1-12, you could do:

SELECT *
FROM MyTable
WHERE Month([DateField]) = [Forms]![mainform]![selmonth]

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