Sorting Dates in Queries

[tbd]

I have a query where I have formatted a date field to
display the information as mmm/yyyy. However, when I try
to sort this data, it groups all April together and so
forth. The problem here is that the data is spread over
the past four years, and I want to sort the data date
sequentially, i.e Jan 01 followed by Feb 01 etc. How can
I do this,

Thanks in advance for any help!

 

[Nikos Yannacopoulos]

Use an extra field in your query just for the sorting, without displaying
it. The field should be the date field again, formatted as "yyyy/mm";
sorting on it will give you the right sorting.

HTH,
Nikos

 

[Gerald Stanley]

You should refer to the date column in the ORDER BY clause
without any reformating e.g.

SELECT Format(dateCol, "mmm/yyyyy") etc
FROM etc
ORDER BY dateCol

Hope This Helps
Gerald Stanley MCSD