>Did you try Null?

How should I try it? BTW, he wants blank, not nulls. Min(date(),NULL) returns NULL.

>>Ok, I discussed this problem, and he wants blank dates, if where are no LC records in a file. So, unfortunately, this problem could not be solved in one select. It now becomes much more complicated... :(
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>>>The only problem I can see with this code, that you'll get DATE(9999,12,31) as a MinLCActDate if there're no records with DeedType = "LC". You can try to use Null instead of DATE(9999,12,31) to fix it (not tested).
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>>>>Exactly :) I figured this out by myself (decided to finally eat lunch). Anyway, three stars for you (I knew, you would be the first to answer :))
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>>>>>Something like

MIN(IIF(DeedType = "LC", date, DATE(9999,12,31)) AS  MinLCActDate,

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