If you are using ADO for data accessing then you will not need to include any dll with your exe file becaues ADO will be there on the Target Computer if it is Win98 and more. Still if you are sure that ADO is not on the target computer than you should supply msad0*.* files and then register these files on target computer by using regsvr32 utility Thanks

You can try following SQL Statement:- Select count(orders) from orderlist group by format(date,"mm-dd-yyyy") order by format(date,"mm-dd-yyyy"). The format can even be used for grouping by months. Thanks