[AccessD] Trying to avoid coding

[David McAfee]

Replace SomeDate with your Date, SomeTable with your table (or query) and
1=1 with your cirteria

MaxDate:
Expr1: DMax("SomeDate","tblSomeTable","1=1")

2nd highest Date:
Expr2:
DMax("SomeDate","tblSomeTable","[SomeDate]<DMax('SomeDate','tblSomeTable','1=1')")

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:

> Dear List:
>
> I'm exporting stuff to a spreadsheet and using a query and that's working
> just fine.  The user wanted the last date in one of the tables so a
> summation query, grouping on all the fields except the date field and using
> MAX on the field with the dates worked out nice.
>
> Now he wants both the last date and the previous date (users (sigh) gotta
> love 'em) - IOW the last two dates.  I can do this with code and push the
> values into a spreadsheet through automation, but that TransferSpreadsheet
> is just soooooo easy and I'm getting lazier in my old age.
>
> So is there a way to pull the last two values from a field in a table when
> you sort on that field with a query, getting the last value in one of the
> columns and the second to last in another?
>
> MTIA
>
> Rocky Smolin
> Beach Access Software
> 858-259-4334
> www.bchacc.com <http://www.bchacc.com/>
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