Perpetual Date Change In a Query

[Proaccesspro]

I run a report EVERY 2 weeks. I'm using a query as the source of the report. The report is Date driven. Is there a way to implement in the query itself a method to retrieve the Current month? In other words, I generally run the reports from the 1-15th of the month and the 16-31. Instead of manually changing the date parameter in the query from BETWEEN 1/1/2008 - 1/15/2008 TO 1/16/2008 - 1/31/2008, could this be automated?? Also, could the same thing be done for the month and year for that matter?

[Scott Price]

You'll want to investigate the DatePart() function. For example:

DatePart("m", Date)

will return 2, as the current month of the current date.

Opening the vba code window in Access, (Alt+F11) and typing this into the immediate window (Ctl+G) then pressing F1 will open the topic specific help file which gives you all (or the majority) of the things you can do with this function.

Regards,
Scott

[NeoPa]

There are also Day(), Month() & Year() functions available which return the numerical equivalents of each component.

[FishVal]

Also, you may find useful DateSerial() function which combines year, month and day numerical variables back to date variable.

Regards.
Fish