>I just tried out the DATE() function. I never knew you could use parameters with it. I always used it as DATE().
>Thanks,
>Cecil
>
>>If you want to use different dates in the sums, use an IIF() expression as what to sum, something like:
>
>>SUM(IIF(BETWEEN(bill_date, DATE(2010,1,1), DATE(2010,1,31)), bill_prem, 0)
>
>>I also changed your CTOD() to use DATE(), which is much safer.
>
>>Tamar
An interesting fact about date() (and datetime()) is that any of the parameters can be null, which will result in the current date/time value, for example:
? DATE(YEAR(DATE()) - 1, null, null)
? DATETIME(null, null, null, 16, 0, 0)
etc.
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