[AccessD] Trying to avoid coding

[Steve Schapel]

Hi Bill

I had understood that Rocky still wanted the exported data to include 
records in addition to those with the most recent dates.

Regards
Steve

-----Original Message----- 
From: Bill Benson
Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2015 9:38 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Trying to avoid coding

Maybe a little more concise, if you are not averse to IN operator:

do your normal query and add in the where clause

Where DateField in (Select distinct TOP 2 DateField From YourTable order by
YourTable.DateField)
On Jun 1, 2015 5:07 PM, "Steve Schapel" <steve at datamanagementsolutions.biz>
wrote:

> Hi Rocky
>
> Is this suitable?...
>
> Make an interim query like this:
>
> SELECT DISTINCT TOP 2 YourDateField FROM YourTable ORDER BY YourDateField
> DESC
>
> Then add that query to your export query, and add these columns:
>
> Max([YourInterimQuery].[YourDateField])
> Min([YourInterimQuery].[YourDateField])
>
> This should give you the last date and the second last date from the 
> table.
>
> Regards
> Steve
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Rocky Smolin
> Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2015 8:08 AM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: [AccessD] Trying to avoid coding
>
> 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