Also, I couldn't find a simple SQL way to cast ClearDate to a Date field - I've read the ODBC SQL date functions, and unless I'm missing something, I think I'm out of luck. All the examples I could find involved writing a VB function to do it, which would be silly to emulate here. Any Access SQL wizards? 

my $report_date        = "\#".&UnixDate(&ParseDate("3/19/2003"), "%m%/
+%d%/%Y")."\#";
my $start_date        = "\#".&UnixDate(&ParseDate("3/19/2003"), "%m%/%
+d%/%Y")."\#";
my $end_date        = "\#".&UnixDate(&ParseDate("3/20/2003"), "%m%/%d%
+/%Y")."\#";

my ($DaysOpen, $Priority, $Status)    = undef;
my ($WO2, $Ticket, $DateOpened, $ClearDate, $SiteCode,  $Problem1, $Si
+teCall1, $Dispatch, $Troubleshooting, $Solution1 )= undef;

$sqlstatement= qq (
    SELECT WorkOrd.WO2, WorkOrd.ClearDate
    from WorkOrd
    where WorkOrd.StatCode5 = 'C' and ( 
        WorkOrd.ClearDate is NULL or ( 
            WorkOrd.ClearDate  BETWEEN ? and  ?
        )
    )
);

print("Report run on $report_date \t Report runs from $start_date to $
+end_date.\n");

$sth = $dbh->prepare($sqlstatement) or  die "Could not prepare stateme
+nt. Error:$sth->errstr()\n";
$sth->execute($start_date, $end_date) or  die "Could not execute state
+ment. Error:$sth->errstr()\n";

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This seems to insert the hash-marks properly into the strings, because the print("Report...") statement works correctly, but ODBC poops on me like this
DBD::ODBC::st execute failed: [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver
+] Data type mismatch 
in criteria expression. (SQL-22005)(DBD: st_execute/SQLExecute err=-1)
+ at O:\Scripts\Perl\ServiceReports\av-citigroup.pl line 54.

Uncaught exception from user code:
    Could not execute statement. Error:DBI::st=HASH(0x21181c8)->errstr
+()
Report run on #03/19/2003#      Report runs from #03/19/2003# to #03/2
+0/2003#.

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If I don't use placeholders, I get this: 
Report run on #03/19/2003#      Report runs from #03/19/2003# to #03/2
+0/2003#.
38706    2003-03-19 14:17:01
38747    2003-03-19 18:40:42
38803    2003-03-19 15:26:40
38848

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In reply to Re: Re: DBD::ODBC, Access, date comparisons by finni
in thread DBD::ODBC, Access, date comparisons by finni

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