SQL: Access query unique meets multiple criterias

Question

I have a table containing the columns studentID, course and start_date where studentID is unique. I want to write a query so that students that haven't gone to any courses with a start date within the year 2010 appears. My problem is that I seem to return all students that have gone to any course that isn't 2010 even though they have attended a course during 2010.

SELECT DISTINCT studentID
FROM attendant
WHERE Startdatum NOT BETWEEN #1/1/2010# AND #12/31/2010#

What I'm really asking is; Is there any way to not show a row if it contains a certain value? How?

Subquery of some sort?

Answer 1

It should be something like:

SELECT DISTINCT studentID FROM attendant
WHERE studentID NOT IN
(SELECT DISTINCT studentID FROM attendant
WHERE Startdatum BETWEEN #1/1/2010# AND #12/31/2010#)

Answer 2

A good way to answer this question is using the having clause:

SELECT studentID
FROM attendant
GROUP BY studentID
HAVING sum(iif(Startdatum BETWEEN #1/1/2010# AND #12/31/2010#, 1, 0)) = 0;

The having clause is counting the number of courses that each student took during the time frame. If there are any, then the filter fails.