Displaying records of a particular month in mysql - mysql

Question

I am trying to fetch records of a particular month from the database and the pattern of the data that column is ""
Query I am using is
select * from table_name WHERE column_name LIKE ''
for the month of September. But this is printing no results.
Please suggest.

Answer 1

Use direct date comparisons! Don't treat dates as strings. So something like:
where column_name >= '2000-09-01' and column_name < '2000-10-01'
Or, if you want all months, then extract the month. The standard function is extract():
where extract(month from column_name) = 9
or:
where month(column_name) = 9
However, the particular function depends on the database (not all databases support all the standard functions).

Answer 2

Building up on the answers and comments above. It seems like you want to use this in your C# code with the user selecting a value from a dropdown. One option would would be something like this:
string monthNumber = valueFromDropdown;
string connectionString = "put you connection string here";
string commandText = "select * from table_name "
+ "where month(column_name) = #MonthNumber";
using (SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString))
{
SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand(commandText, connection);
command.Parameters.Add("#MonthNumber", SqlDbType.Int);
command.Parameters["#MonthNumber"].Value = monthNumber;
try
{
connection.Open();
using(SqlDataReader reader = command.ExecuteReader())
{
while (reader.Read())
{
Console.WriteLine(String.Format("{0}, {1}",
reader[0], reader[1]));
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
}
}