How to calculate days between two dates, - mysql

Question

Is it possible in MySQL to easily to get the number of days between two dates, group by months and then disperse those days between the months, so that when I group by month, I get to see how many days inbetween two those two dates fall into each month.
Example: creation 05.05.2014 to expiration 06.06.2014 returns 32 days. I want to display this as:
May: 26 days
June: 5 days
So far I've got:
SELECT MONTHNAME(date) as month_name,
SUM(DATEDIFF(expiration, date)) AS num_days
FROM reservations
GROUP BY month_name
But it doesn't disperse the days corretly by month, just drop them all into the group-by -start-date-month, obviously. Any ideas would be highly appriciated.

Answer 1

I would build a comprehensive date temp table (or CTE) first.
From there you can select what you'd like, and group it however suits your needs.
IF OBJECT_ID('TEMPDB..#Dates') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE #Dates
DECLARE #StartDate DATETIME, #EndDate DATETIME
SET #StartDate = '05/05/2014'
SET #EndDate = '06/06/2014'
;WITH Dates AS
(
SELECT CAST(CONVERT(VARCHAR(8), #StartDate,112) AS INT) AS DateId
, CAST(#StartDate AS DATE) AS Date
, CAST(#StartDate AS DATETIME) AS DateTime
, DATEPART(QUARTER, #StartDate) AS QuarterId
, 'Q' + CAST(DATEPART(QUARTER,#StartDate) AS CHAR(1)) AS Quarter
, DATEPART(MONTH, #StartDate) AS MonthId
, DATENAME(MONTH, #StartDate) AS Month
, DATEPART(DAY, #StartDate) AS Day
, DATEPART(YEAR, #StartDate) AS Year
, DATENAME(DW,#StartDate) AS DayOfWeek
, DATEPART(DAYOFYEAR, #StartDate) AS DayOfYear
UNION ALL
SELECT CAST(CONVERT(VARCHAR(8),DATEADD(DAY, 1, D.DateTime), 112) AS INT) ASDateId
, CAST(DATEADD(DAY, 1, D.DateTime) AS DATE) AS Date
, CAST(DATEADD(DAY, 1, D.DateTime) AS DATETIME) AS DateTime
, DATEPART(QUARTER,DATEADD(DAY,1,D.DateTime)) AS QuarterId
,'Q'+CAST(DATEPART(QUARTER,DATEADD(DAY, 1, D.DateTime)) AS CHAR(1)) AS Quarter
, DATEPART(MONTH,DATEADD(DAY, 1, D.DateTime)) AS MonthId
, DATENAME(MONTH,DATEADD(DAY, 1,D.DateTime)) AS Month
, DATEPART(DAY,DATEADD(DAY, 1, D.DateTime)) AS Day
, DATEPART(YEAR,DATEADD(DAY, 1, D.DateTime)) AS Year
, DATENAME(DW,DATEADD(DAY,1, D.DateTime)) AS DayOfWeek
, DATEPART(DAYOFYEAR,DATEADD(DAY,1, D.DateTime)) AS DayOfYear
FROM Dates AS D
WHERE D.DateTime < #EndDate
)
SELECT DateId AS DateId
, Date AS Date
, DateTime AS DateTime
, QuarterId AS QuarterId
, Quarter AS Quarter
, MonthId AS MonthId
, Month AS Month
, Day AS Day
, Year AS Year
, DayOfWeek AS DayOfWeek
, DayOfYear AS DayOfYear
, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY DateId)-1 AS DayCount
INTO #Dates
FROM Dates AS D
ORDER BY D.DateId
OPTION (MAXRECURSION 32767)
-- SELECT * FROM #Dates
SELECT COUNT(Day) AS CountOfDays, Month
FROM #Dates
GROUP BY Month