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Old 03-22-2010, 05:13 PM   #53
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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby View Post

1. Get a list of all entries in a column (in other words, if I have 50,000 records and column H has a listing by state, I want a list of the states covered in this list [obviously not all 50 states]).

2. Create a list of records with birthdays in a certain month (in this case, April).
[list=1][*]Convert the Birth Date column to text. Note that this data came to me with the date already in a text format listed at YYYYMMDD (no dashes or slashes).

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Seriously dude, import this **** into a database.

#1 Then becomes: Select DISTINCT State from Your.bd

#2 Would be: Select * from Your.db where mid(datefield,5,2)='04'
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