Re: Selecting Date Range
| From: | Jason Wong | Date: | Thu, 04 Nov 2004 03:10:44 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Selecting Date Range | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Wednesday 03 November 2004 18:47, ConbuD wrote:
> Hey, I have a database with approx 200-300 students in it. I wanna be able
> to pull out what student joined a class with in a certain date range. Say I
> wanna get all the students who joined between 10/12/04 through 12/12/04.
> What is the easiest way to do this ? Can it be done with just a simple
> MySQL query ? I actually enter the date as shown above, I dont use the
> MySQL dates. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
If you're not storing your dates as a real date/time column but as simple
varchar column then you've created unnecessary work for yourself. I strongly
suggest that you use proper date column types and then you can take advantage
of the date handling functions available in MySQL.
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