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  • May 19, 2016 at 8:34 pm

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    I guess that I'd never make the assumption that the user made a reversal of the dates even by accident. What if they phat phingered something and they don't notice and then use that report as some form of gospel?

    Protect the user-in-a-hurry from such an eventuality. Make the report (or what have you) error out with an informative reason. Having the user correctly enter the dates in the correct order is a form of validation that I wouldn't gloss over.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

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