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    DSUM() Error

    please tell me what is the error in the following function:


    =dsum(Amount,Expenses,(month(ExpenseDate) = month(date())

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    Try:
    =DSum("Amount","Expenses","Month(ExpenseDate)=" & Month(Date()))
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    Still getting a syntax error.

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    Show the exact error message. I know this syntax is correct.
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    The Expression you entered contains invalid syntax.

    You omitted an operand or operator, you entered an invalid character or comma, or you entered text without surrounding it in quotation marks.

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    Don't know what else to offer. The syntax works for me. I assumed you are using this in the ControlSource of a textbox. This also works because the criteria Month(Date()) is composed of Access functions: =DSum("Amount","Expenses","Month(ExpenseDate)=Mont h(Date())")
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    Thanks for the effort. I modified the condition as follows and got the same error:

    =dsum(Amount,Expenses,1=1)

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    I converted the DSum function into its SQL Equivalent("=(Select sum(amount) from expenses)") and got a #Name? error showing in textbox on the form.

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    Domain aggregate functions (DSum, DCount, DAvg, etc) require the arguments be enclosed in quote marks, unless using variables.

    Can't use SQL SELECT that way because the SQL returns a recordset, not a single value. Even if the recordset has only one record with one field, it is still a recordset.
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    I pasted the function from Expression Builder and the argument separator is not a comma but a semi-colon it worked. Thank you June for you kind assistance.

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    I am using Access 2010.

    I have never used the expression builder so just tested it. I see commas, not semi-colons. I have never built a domain aggregate or SQL aggregate with semi-colons. This has me confused but as long as it works for you ...

    The expression builder also did not include the quote marks which means when the function executed I got parameter prompts.

    Wizards and builders, bah, I avoid them.
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    Maybe its the different versions I am using 2007

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    No, I originally built my project with Access2003, upgraded to 2007 at work. Nothing different about aggregate functions. I am using Access2010 at home.
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    Microsoft Mystery

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    Mystery solved... (for me anyways)

    I was having the same problems as above. It made no sense to me at all as I was copying a query criteria straight from a textbook.

    My problem was the default list separator set in the regional settings. I had changed it a while back to a "pipe" character for some CSV lists. I changed it back to a comma, the default windows setting, and all is well. This goes in line with why the semicolon was working for msr. When I got the idea that that may be the cause I tried the | in the query criteria, but no dice.

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