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Yes, this isn't usually an argument I care for, I happily use zero-based and occasionally having to pause to remember to get it right in SQL is a minor annoyance and that's that.

But then recently I was doing some 'munging' to get some data structured correctly to display in a chart over months, with a variable start month that depended on the data. Well, let's just say that involved a fair amount of +/- 1 ing, and is hopefully the last time I think 'hm, it'd actually be quite nice if you could choose which to use on access' (or per function?).



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