[thelist] SQL query help: dates

Joshua Olson joshua at waetech.com
Thu Feb 17 15:55:28 CST 2005


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Olson
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 3:31 PM
> 
> I think the appropriate course of action would be to use the 
> date functions
> provided by the database (datediff, for example) to calculate 
> the person's
> next birthday.  
> 
> Something like this (syntax untested, but hopefully it's clear):
> 
> DateAdd("yyyy", DateDiff("yyyy", birthday, Now()) + 1, Now())

Dang typos...

Should be:

DateAdd("yyyy", DateDiff("yyyy", birthday, Now()) + 1, birthday)

Sorry bout that,  (still simpler than AB's solution :-) )

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Joshua Olson
Web Application Engineer
WAE Tech Inc.
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