query criteria for timestamp
 

ran odbc to get data from oracle database that has a
timestamp field I need to query - would like to select
records depending on equal month and year (like 2004 Jan
or 2004/01) so I can use a dialog box to get the
information from the user prior to running odbc -
timestamp format is yyyymmdd hh:mm:ss. Have been
unsuccessful in finding examples of code using timestamp
components. Can someone point me in the right direction
of suggest a good book? Thanks.