DateAdd function in Excel SQL query not working

Question

I am using Excel to make an SQL query (connecting to an ODBC). I have a problem with the function DateAdd(), which just doesn't work as expected.

What I need to do is to get the data from the last six months.

My code is something like

SELECT blablabla FROM blablabla and then I have this:

WHERE Note_0.Relate_key = Work_history_0.WO_Key AND Work_history_0.Order_date> DateAdd(Month, -6, Now()) 

I've searched in the internet and this syntax is supposed to work, but I get this error message

Column "MONTH" cannot be found or is not specified for query. (13865)

As if it didn't have the parameters I think it has, which are "interval, number, date", but something else.

Any idea about this?

Answer 1

This is what you need:

DateAdd("m", -6, Now) 

Or even DateAdd("m", -6, Date) , if you want to get rid of the hours, coming from Now .

Thus, you have to declare that you want the "Months" to be substracted.

DateAdd MSDN

Answer 2

WHERE Note_0.Relate_key = Work_history_0.WO_Key AND Work_history_0.Order_date >  ADD_MONTHS(curdate(), -6)