I have two fields, one with the purchase date and one with the lifespan of an item. I am wondering if there is any way to determine if the current date is past the lifespan. So, pretty much if MySQL could test if current_date is > purchase_date + lifespan.
The purchase date is a date formated yyyy-mm-dd and lifespan is an integer of months. Is there any way to perform this calculation?
You might try:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE NOW() > (purchase_date + INTERVAL lifespan MONTH)
But you might use
SELECT * FROM table WHERE NOW() > date_add(purchase_date, INTERVAL lifespan MONTH)
Or DATEDIFF
SELECT * FROM table WHERE DATEDIFF(NOW(), purchase_date) / 30 < lifespan
How about using DATEDIFF?
Your query would be something along these lines:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE DATEDIFF(NOW(), purchase_date) < lifespan
Forgive me if my syntax is a little off, I don't have an SQL instance to test on right now
Yes it is possible, using the MySQL date and time functions.
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This is probably easy to do but I can't seem to get my head around it. I have a user table that has a next_payment DATETIME column which gets update every month. I would like a query to get all the users where their next_payment DATETIME is in one day from the current datetime.
I tried something like this but it also gets me users where their next_payment is due in like 15 minutes. Not good
SELECT * FROM users WHERE next_payment >= NOW() AND next_payment <= NOW() + INTERVAL 1 DAY
I also tried something like this but this doesn't work either as it gives me all users that had next_payment datetime like 2 or 3 months ago (Not good).
SELECT * FROM users WHERE next_payment <= NOW() + INTERVAL 1 DAY
Thanks in advance for any help
Need to Cast the datetime field to date so you can include all data within the period and use between
SELECT * FROM
users
WHERE
cast(next_payment as date)
between cast(NOW() as date)
AND cast(NOW() + INTERVAL 1 DAY as date)
DATEDIFF works fine in MySQL:
SELECT
*
FROM
users
WHERE
DATEDIFF(next_payment, NOW()) = 1
SQL Fiddle for this example.
I would use:
SELECT * FROM users
WHERE TIMESTAMPDIFF(HOUR,NOW(),next_payment) <= 24
I'm trying to retrieve data between today and the rest of this month.
select * from table where date between curdate() and endmonth();
My experience with mysql dates/times is pretty bad.
MySQL has a LAST_DAY function that returns the last day of the passed month. I'd use that:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE date BETWEEN CURDATE() AND LAST_DAY(CURDATE());
I'd go with a little trick with DATE_FORMAT()
select * from table where date between curdate() and DATE_FORMAT(CURDATE(), '%Y-%m-31');
This way you don't have to deal with complicated and year(...) = ... and month(... . It's just nice and easy to write.
Read more about it here.
SELECT * FROM table WHERE date BETWEEN CURDATE() AND LAST_DAY(CURDATE());
The title might be a bit misleading, but what I want is:
SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY pid ASC
And in one of the columns I have a DATE(). I want to compare the current date (not time) and return how many days are left till that date. Let's say the date is 2013-04-20 and today's date is 2013-04-16 I don't want to get any data if it's < current date. If it is I want it returned in days.
I've been looking around here and I've found no way to do it, and I can't for the love of me figure it out.
If you're looking for the difference between two date you can use the GETDATE function in MS SQL
SELECT DATEDIFF(DD, DateOne, DateTwo) FROM TABLE
This will return the difference in number of days between the two dates.
If you only want rows where the date field is less than or equal to today's date you can use:
SELECT DATEDIFF(DD, DateField, GETDATE())
FROM TableName
WHERE DateField <= GETDATE()
If you're using MySQL you can use DATEDIFF()
SELECT
DATEDIFF(NOW(), date_column) AS days_diff
FROM
tablename
Get the difference between two dates (ANSI SQL)
select the_date_column - current_date as days_left
from the_table
where the_date_column - current_date <= 4;
SQLFiddle: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!12/3148d/1
I'm working on a project where I want to display data after 3 days have passed.
What I'm having an issue with is getting the current date dynamically in php/sql. I'm aware of how to get the current date in php, but I dont know how to compare that value to the date that I have in the sql database.
You can do that directly in SQL
select * from your_table
where date_column <= curdate() - interval 3 day
You can use an interval select to limit the records to within 3 days if the column you're checking istimestamp, date, or datetime.
select * from tablename where timestamp_column >= NOW() - INTERVAL 3 DAY
You can use DATEDIFF function to check for days.
SELECT *
FROM tablename
WHERE DATEDIFF(CURRENT_DATE(), datecol) >= 3;
I have a table 't' with date(yyyy-mm-dd), hour(1-12), minute(00-59), ampm(a/p), and timezone(pst/est) fields.
How can I select the rows that are <= now()? (ie. already happened)
Thank you for your suggestions!
edit: this does it without attention to the hour/minute/ap/tz fields:
SELECT * FROM t.date WHERE date <= now()
Here's one way to do it - combine all your seconds, minutes, etc into a date and compare to NOW(), making sure you do the comparison in the same time-zone. (Untested):
SELECT *
FROM t
LEFT JOIN y ON t.constant=y.constant
WHERE CONVERT_TZ(STR_TO_DATE(CONCAT(date,' ',hour,':',minute,' 'ampm),
'%Y-%m-%d %l:%i %p' ),
timezone,"SYSTEM") < NOW();
If your hour is 01 - 12 not 1-12 then use %h instead of %l in the STR_TO_DATE.
The STR_TO_DATE tries to stick your date and time columns together and convert them into a date.
The CONVERT_TZ(...,timezone,"SYSTEM") converts this date from whatever timezone is specified in the timezone column to system time.
This is then compared to NOW(), which is always in system time.
As an aside, perhaps you should make a single column date using MySQL's date datatype, as it's a lot easier to do arithmetic on that!
For reference, here is a summary of very useful mysql date functions where you can read up on those featuring in this answer.
Good luck!
SELECT * FROM t
WHERE `date`<=DATE_SUB(curdate(), INTERVAL 1 DAY)
OR (
`date`<=DATE_ADD(curdate(), INTERVAL 1 DAY)
AND
CONVERT_TZ(CAST(CONCAT(`date`,' ',IF(`hour`=12 AND ampm='a',0,if(ampm='a',`hour`,`hour`+12)),':',`minute`,':00') AS DATETIME),'GMT',`timezone`)<=NOW()
)
Rationale for date<=DATE_[ADD|SUB](curdate(), INTERVAL 1 DAY):
The fancy conversion is quite an expensive operation, so we don't want it to run on the complete table. This is why we pre-select against an UNCHANGED date field (possibly using an index). In no timezone can an event being more than a day in current timezone's past be in the future, and in no timezone can an event more than a day in the curent timezone's future be in the past.