I've been stuck on one small item for awhile and it's driviing me nuts. In short, I want to run a delete query in VBA to delete records containing a billing month that's greater that a precalculated current month. The source data from another system has the dates in text format, shown as (YYYY/MM).

Here's the statement:

DoCmd****nSQL mySQL

When it runs, it deletes everything from the table, not just the items where the billing month is greater than the current month.

All variables are declared properly and I can see the PreCalcCurrentMonth when I step through the codeAny suggestions?

Should I be evaluating each recordset individually?

Thanks,

Ed

The format of the data does not matter here. What's the data type of the column [Billing Month] and what's the Type of the variable PreCalcCurrentMonth?

Hi, both [Billing Month] and PreCalcCurrentMonth data types are String

If I do this is a regular MS Access query and use PreCalcCurrentMonth as a parameter which I key in at run time, it works.

Then the criteria should be:
The pound (or number) character (#) has a numeric code of 35, i.e. lower than any numeric or alphabetic character. In a string comparison, a string beginning with # will always be smaller than any alphanumeric string.

Great, thanks! It worked successfully once, but I've got more testing to do. Btw, you had an extra " at the end after the single '. Just in case someone else should need this, Thanks again!

You're welcome!