Hi, I have an access database that I use for recording the sickness of my employees. One of the tables holds the dates, Start Date, End Date and Count of Days etc. I need to produce a query that will show me a count of all of these dates between two date parameters that I will input when the report is run. However, to complicate matters, I need a definitive count even if the end date runs over the end date of my query.

For example....

I am employee X and I am sick between...

Start_Date = 01/07/2006
End_Date = 03/08/2006

If I wanted to run a report on this employee I would type in a start date and end date of 01/07/2006 to 31/07/2006 (i.e. the calendar month). This would need to take into account that the employee's end date is not in July. Presently, this doesn't happen unless the employee is off sick and returned within my parameter query.

Any idea how I can do this? It is driving me nuts, particularly as I often need to report on absences for a calendar month.