Hoping for some advice regarding an Access Form I'm designing.

When I do a select query from Query Analyser the date field comes back for example 2007-10-12 00:00:00.

Now when I run a select query from the front end using vb code, the select query is written with a where statement as 12/10/2007. This select query returns no results.

How do I get the front end to do a date query the backend will understand??

What data type is this field in the SQL Server?

Can you post the select statement from the front end? Access SQL will use ## to indicate a date field, but SQL Server will not accept that.

Worst case you can change your select statement to:

Dim dtYear As Integer
Dim dtMonth As Integer
Dim dtDay As Integer

dtYear = DatePart("yyyy", Me.DateField)
dtMonth = DatePart("m", Me.DateField)
dtDay = DatePart("d", Me.DateField) 'that might be "dd"

"SELECT * FROM tblSQLYourTable WHERE DatePart("yyyy", [SQLDateField) = '" & dtYear & "' AND DatePart("m", [SQLDateField]) = '" & dtMonth & "' AND DatePart("d", [SQLDateField]) = '" & dtDay & "'"

Did that help any?



mmcdonal

The data type used on the SQL Server is smallDateTime.

I have been advised by another user to change the format of the Date variable in VB using Format(strDate1,"mm/dd/yy"). This has had no effect. The Select Query I am using to open the recordset is

select vw.intVisitID,vw.FullName,Vw.dtmDateOfVisit From view_AllSchoolVisits As Vw Where (vw.intSchoolId =4) And (vw.DtmDateOfVisit Between 10/02/07 And 10/28/07)

Thank you for your suggestion but I cannot believe that it is so messy to query a date range. So at the moment I am no further forward.

I am not sure where you would use: Format(strDate1,"mm/dd/yy")

The format of your SQL Server date is yyyy-mm-dd or yyyy-dd-mm, I am not sure. So you would want to convert the date to the proper format BEFORE passing it to SQL Server. mm and dd preserve leading zeros. SQL Server does not recognize the Format() finction. So that would be:

Dim dtStartDate As Date
Dim dtEndDate As Date

dtStartDate = Me.StartDateField
dtEndDate = Me.EndDateField

dtStartDate = Format(dtStartDate, "yyyy-mm-dd")
dtEndDate = Format(dtEndDate, "yyyy-mm-dd")

sSQL = "SELECT vw.intVisitID,vw.FullName,Vw.dtmDateOfVisit From view_AllSchoolVisits As Vw Where (vw.intSchoolId =" & iSchoolID & ") And (vw.DtmDateOfVisit Between " & dtStartDate & " And " & dtEndDate & ")"

Now that is messy too, but you write code so others don't have to.

Anyway, if there is still a problem, it may be because the Time portion of the DateTime field is causing a problem. Why is the field formatted this way if the time is not being taken? I can understand the date format if it is a string since that sorts them in order.

Anyway, did that help any?

mmcdonal