Filtering latest 3 days birthday records from MS Access table

Question

I am trying to filter the employees records whose birthday falls during last 3 days including today on the basis of birthday_date column in the tb_Employee table in MS Access . I know I can get latest 3 days record on the basis of date:

Select * from tb_Employee where ([Date_Column] >= NOW()-3

But in my case in birthday_date column date is in past year (say 18/1/1975). Please help me to fix this

Example:

Answer 1

I might suggest:

select * from tb_employee 
where 
    (dateserial(year(date()),month(birthday_date),day(birthday_date)) between date()-3 and date()) or
    (dateserial(year(date())-1,month(birthday_date),day(birthday_date)) between date()-3 and date())

In words, this query is stating:

"Select employees for which their Birthday this year is between the last 3 days and today, or their Birthday last year is between the last 3 days and today"

Answer 2

If you want peoples whose birthdays are in the past three days, here is one method:

where dateserial(year(date()), month(dob), day(dob)) in
        (
         date(), dateadd("d", -1, date()), dateadd("d", -2, "date"),
         dateadd("y", 1, dateadd("d", -1, date())), 
         dateadd("y", 1, dateadd("d", -2, "date"))
        )

The last two handle Dec 30th and Dec 31st.