My objective with this query is to get all the incident (osirReport tble) records that have not had a general comment (comments tble) or an action comment (action tble) in the last three months.

osirReport is the main table that shares a one to many relationship with both the comments and action tables (each incident may have multiple action and general comments)

Please note: The query does not error, it just returns no results. I am not sure if I haver used the:
!> (Not Greater Than)
and the:
!< (Not Less Than)
operators properly

SELECT distinct osirReport.osirId,osirReport.osirShipNum,osirRepor t.osirHRI,osirReport.osirOrId,osirReport.osirSigna lDateTime,osirReport.osirActId,osirReport.creation Date FROM ((osirReport
LEFT OUTER JOIN reportComments ON osirReport.osirID = reportComments.osirID)
LEFT OUTER JOIN action ON osirReport.osirID = action.acOsirID)
Where (osirReport.osirStatus=1) AND (osirReport.osirTypeId IN ( 2))
AND (
    ((reportComments.lastEdited !> '2/22/2006 12:00:00 AM') AND (reportComments.lastEdited !< '5/22/2006 12:00:00 AM'))
or ((action.acDate !> '2/22/2006 12:00:00 AM') AND (action.acDate !< '5/22/2006 12:00:00 AM'))
    )
ORDER BY osirReport.osirSignalDateTime desc;

TYIA


Wind is your friend
Matt

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Wind is your friend
Matt

This query will look for records that have:

reportComments.lastEdited earlier than Feb 22
AND
reportComments.lastEdited later than May 22

The date value in that field cannot fill both of these requirements

Records with a date value of Feb. 21 do not fill the second requiremnt
Records with a date value of May 23 do not fill the first requiremnt

As such you will not get any results. You need to change your operator to OR.

SELECT distinct osirReport.osirId,osirReport.osirShipNum,osirRepor t.osirHRI,osirReport.osirOrId,osirReport.osirSigna lDateTime,osirReport.osirActId,osirReport.creation Date FROM ((osirReport
LEFT OUTER JOIN reportComments ON osirReport.osirID = reportComments.osirID)
LEFT OUTER JOIN action ON osirReport.osirID = action.acOsirID)
Where (osirReport.osirStatus=1) AND (osirReport.osirTypeId IN ( 2))
AND (
    ((reportComments.lastEdited !> '2/22/2006 12:00:00 AM') OR (reportComments.lastEdited !< '5/22/2006 12:00:00 AM'))
or ((action.acDate !> '2/22/2006 12:00:00 AM') OR (action.acDate !< '5/22/2006 12:00:00 AM'))
    )
ORDER BY osirReport.osirSignalDateTime desc;

Thank you for your time.

I ended up reaching my objective using two queries instead of the desired one. yes one is inside a loop, mmmm not ideal. I will try your method and let you know. Thanking you...

Wind is your friend
Matt