[Year 12 IT Apps] Access qn..

Wed Feb 20 15:53:27 EST 2008

Hi all,
	There have been several solutions to this problem and being slightly pedantic I tried them all. Basically they were (and apologies if I missed any others)
Age1: Int((Now()-[DOB])/365.25)
Age2: DateDiff("yyyy",[Dob],Now())
Age3: DateDiff("yyyy",[dob],Now())+Int(Format(Now(),"mmdd")<Format([dob],"mmdd"))

I got a little confused when Age2 came up with different results than Age1 & Age3 for all months except Feb. My guess is that without the formatting rules in 3 DateDiff only looks at what you specifically want it to, ie just the year in 2
Does anyone have a better explanation of why this occurs? 
Damien Atkinson-Buck
IT/Multimedia Teacher
Ivanhoe Grammar School
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-----Original Message-----
From: Pamela Wright [mailto:P.Wright at latrobe.edu.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, 20 February 2008 3:08 PM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: RE: [Year 12 IT Apps] Access qn..

Hi Kent,
I've had a go and have managed to do something quickly in query. I've zipped and attached. Hope it helps.

Pam
Pam Wright
Lecturer ICT
Faculty of Education
La Trobe University  

-----Original Message-----
From: Kent Beveridge [mailto:kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au]
Sent: Wednesday, 20 February 2008 12:43 PM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: RE: [Year 12 IT Apps] Access qn..

Thanks for all the ideas folks.
The common approach seems to be via a 'form'...that one works well in its varying flavours as suggested on the list. And yes, I did get the 'form' version working even before I put the qn on the list.
Unfortunately, what I cant get to work is (if you can picture this...)...
A column in a table is headed DOB
Another column in the same table is headed AGE Data from the sample database sheet is entered which includes DOB field for all the records.
My so far unsuccessful attempts are to try to get the database to 'automatically calculate' the AGE, given the data in the DOB field via the table.
I guess that since I also tried, again unsuccessfully, this via a query, that is why most of the suggestions are query or form based.

I must be holding my jaw wrong!

But I aint giving up just yet..(knew there was a reason computers annoy me!).

Kent.

Kent Beveridge,
I.T. co-ordinator
St. Brigids Catholic Sec. College
Horsham
email.. kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au

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From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Hammond Kerrie
Sent: Wed 2/20/2008 11:01 AM
To: itapps at edulists.com.au
Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] (no subject)

Hello folks

I was wondering if someone could forward me the SIMCO access example that people have been referring to. I am new to teaching ITapps this year and would be very appreciative of this or any other relevant examples that I could use with my students. 

As a "silent" observer to the list I would like to thank the regular contributors who are so generous with their resources and expertise.

Many thanks
Kerrie Hammond
Trinity College Colac

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