After slapping Excel around successfully, I'm now getting pummeled by Access. I'm using ActiveState Perl and DBD::ODBC. There is an Access field that is a date/time field; I need the get the full date/time data when I query it. BUT, for the SQL query, I only want to compare the date portion, not the date/time. 
use Win32::ODBC;
use DBI;
use Date::Manip;
&Date_Init("TZ=EST");
my $now = localtime();
my $start_date        = &UnixDate(&ParseDate("$now"), "%m%/%d%/%Y");
$sqlstatement= qq (
    SELECT WorkOrd.WO2, WorkOrd.ClearDate
    from WorkOrd
    where WorkOrd.StatCode5 = 'C' and ( 
        WorkOrd.ClearDate is NULL or ( 
            WorkOrd.ClearDate  = ?
        )
    )
);
$sth = $dbh->prepare($sqlstatement) or  die "Could not prepare stateme
+nt. Error:$sth->errstr()\n";
$sth->execute($start_date) or  die "Could not execute statement. Error
+:$sth->errstr()\n";
$sth->bind_columns(    \$WO2, \$ClearDate );

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This only returns things that are NULL in ClearDate, not things that were cleared today. I've tried playing with different UnixDate formats, and that gave the same (incomplete) results. I tried encasing the date in Access-style #, but that bombed with DBS::ODBC errors. I'm not making much headway here; I'd love some hints.

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

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