How to query data from ms access table, between two dates and two times?

Question

0.00/5 (No votes)

See more:

It is a VB6 project connected with Ms access database(.accdb).
The table has separate columns for DATE and TIME.
Below is the table

TABLE : tblSales

+------------------------------------------- ---+
|  ID	|   PRODUCT    |    DATE     |   TIME   |
+-------|--------------|-------------|----------+
|   1	|    SAND      | 11-Nov-2022 | 13:50:33 |
|   2	|    CEMENT    | 11-Nov-2022 | 18:22:05 |
|   3	|    BRICKS    | 12-Nov-2022 | 11:09:12 |
|   4	|    CEMENT    | 13-Nov-2022 | 09:50:42 |
|   5	|    SAND      | 13-Nov-2022 | 14:47:48 |
|   6	|    SAND      | 13-Nov-2022 | 20:22:31 |
|   7	|    BRICKS    | 15-Nov-2022 | 12:17:26 |
|   8	|    BRICKS    | 16-Nov-2022 | 08:36:27 |
|   9	|    SAND      | 16-Nov-2022 | 15:50:44 |
|  10	|    CEMENT    | 20-Nov-2022 | 20:50:18 |
+-------|--------------|-------------|----------+

What I have tried:

SQL

Select * From tblSales Where [DATE] Between from_date And to_date And [TIME] Between from_time And to_time

Results were Wrong.

Need advise for getting expected result. Thanks.

Posted 14-Nov-22 19:45pm

Member 11291660

Updated 14-Nov-22 19:55pm

Add a Solution

Comments

Richard MacCutchan 15-Nov-22 4:01am

"Results were Wrong."
Well we cannot see your screen so have no way of knowing why that might be. You also need to show what values you are using in the comparison fields.

PIEBALDconsult 15-Nov-22 6:56am

Maybe something along the lines of ... WHERE [DATE] + [TIME] BETWEEN ... as appropriate for the database.

1 solution

Add a Solution

Add your solution here

Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML

Preview 0

…

Existing Members

Sign in to your account

...or Join us

Download, Vote, Comment, Publish.

Your Email
Password
Forgot your password?

Your Email
This email is in use. Do you need your password?
Optional Password

I have read and agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Please subscribe me to the CodeProject newsletters

When answering a question please:

Read the question carefully.
Understand that English isn't everyone's first language so be lenient of bad spelling and grammar.
If a question is poorly phrased then either ask for clarification, ignore it, or edit the question and fix the problem. Insults are not welcome.
Don't tell someone to read the manual. Chances are they have and don't get it. Provide an answer or move on to the next question.

Let's work to help developers, not make them feel stupid.

This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2022-11-14T19:55:00

If you are storing dates and times separately, then the most likely thing is that your are storing them as VARCHAR or NVARCHAR fields, and that's a huge mistake: use a single DATETIME field instead, and a lot of problems will go away.

Text based dates and times are a very bad idea: not only is it pretty easy to wreck your db by storing invalid data in them (like "I dunno" for example) it's also very easy to get the format inconsistent: 01-02-03 can be three different dates depending on the user that entered the: 1st Feb 2003, 2nd Jan 2003, and 3rd Feb 2001, for European, American, and Japanese / ISO users respectively.

And text based comparisons are evaluated by finding the first different character pair and returning the result of that comparison without even looking at subsequent characters in either string you are comparing. So even if your database somehow only contains data of the form dd-MMM-yyyy it still doesn't compare well, as "13-Dec-2022" is before "13-Nov-2022" because 'D' comes before 'N' in the alphabet!

Change your DB, use appropriate datatypes and all these problems disappear.