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SQL Select on a Select with criteria

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I have a number of queries that I have to select a date range on. The query below\
is SELECT [Transactions].* FROM [Transactions]) is one of these. What is wrong with my syntax below?


Select * From (SELECT [Transactions].* FROM [Transactions]) Where [Transaction Date] >'01 February 2013' AND [Transaction Date] <'26 May 2013'
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Please try below as inner query:
SELECT * FROM [Transactions]
WHERE [TransactionDate] BETWEEN
'2013-02-01' AND '2013-05-26'

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Hi. Thanks but that doesn't help. I am trying to do a Select on a Select with criteria
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I've requested that this question be closed as follows:

Accepted answer: 0 points for murbro's comment #a39197479

for the following reason:

worked it out myself
A valid and more better way was suggested for the inner query.
SELECT * FROM
(SELECT * FROM [Transactions]
WHERE [TransactionDate] BETWEEN
'2013-02-01' AND '2013-05-26') T

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>I am trying to do a Select on a Select with criteria
Just for kicks and giggles, can you give us an English-only description of what you mean by 'Select on a Select'?
Reason I ask is because if we're talking only one table, and you're not doing anything funky such as filtering on sum values, rank orders, pivot/unpivot, or time series, then a simple select should meet most needs, as was in the first comment.
I would agree with Jim, you do not need the sub query in this instance.

And I would recommend using a syntax other than BETWEEN when working with dates.

Where datefield  >= '2013-02-01' AND datefield < '2013-05-27'

This will ensure that if your datefield contains a time component you include all records that are attributed to 2013-05-26, not just those where the date value is '2013-05-26 00:00:00'