Access applies quotation marks around date values in conditions to differentiate them from other operators in the expression. This ensures that Access interprets the dates correctly, avoiding confusion with text and operators within the condition.
Access automatically placed quotation marks around the date values to distinguish them from the operators.
When working with Microsoft Access and constructing conditions or queries that involve dates, it is important to properly format the date values. If Tom forgot to set off the date values properly in his condition, Access would help by automatically placing quotation marks (") around the date values. This is done to ensure that Access can differentiate between the textual parts of the expression and the date values themselves. In general, quotation marks are used to enclose text strings and dates to indicate to Access that the characters within the quotation marks should be treated as a single entity. This prevents any confusion, especially since date formats can include slashes (/) or dashes (-) that might otherwise be interpreted as operators within the expression.
quotation marks are used by Access to correctly interpret and isolate date values within an expression, avoiding any ambiguity with the operators that are also part of the condition.