>>Where do you get syntax error? In T-SQL it's NULL (w/o '.').
>>You don't need to check for tapcomp.fdate > ctod("12/31/9999") and you can use date literal instead of CTOD()

tapcomp.fdate < {^1753/01/01}

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>I changed the ".NULL." to "NULL" and still get the error. The syntax error is when I insert the record using SQLEXEC().

Can you post your code that generates an error?