Question

As I was adding some functionality to a form, it required that I update a date for a row. My update query was built out to be:

   "update tblReview set tblreview.[reviewDate] = me.currdate WHERE empID = '"& me.empid & "';"

(basically)
it was printed out to be

  "Update tblReview set tblreview.[reviewdate] = 7/24/2012 WHERE empID = '1';"

Cool, that’s what I wanted. Now lets look at my data

 *empId*       *reviewDate*
    1             12/30/1899

What?! Why does it do this? Okay, sure, I should probably put ‘#’ characters around my date to fix it. But why does it update to this ridiculous value rather than giving me some sort of error?

Answer 1

That should be:

"update tblReview set tblreview.[reviewDate] =#" _
& Format( me.currdate,"yyyy/mm/dd") _
& "# WHERE empID = " & me.empid