how to test date and datetime with mysql - mysql

My table is using a datetime (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS) and i need to display today's entries.
my code is only :
SELECT *
FROM table
WHERE date = '$date'
ORDER BY score DESC
with
$date = date("Y-m-d");
well, as expected it doesnt work :| you guys have a solution here ?

Following from Pascal Martin, you could extract the date part from the date+time field:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE DATE(date) = '2009-12-19'
Source: MySQL - Date and Time Functions
Be aware however, that this query will not use an index on your date+time field, if you will be having one. (Stack Overflow: How does one create an index on the date part of DATETIME field in MySql)

Your date is "2009-12-19" (or something like that, depending on the day), which is interpreted as "2009-12-19 00:00:00".
In your database, you probably don't have any date that's exactly equal to that one, by the second : your dates are like "2009-12-19 12:15:32".
A solution is to compare like this :
select *
from table
where date >= '2009-12-19'
and date < '2009-12-20'
Which will be interpreted as :
select *
from table
where date >= '2009-12-19 00:00:00'
and date < '2009-12-20 00:00:00'
And, if you don't want to do the math to get the date of the following date, you can use the adddate function :
select *
from table
where date >= '2009-12-19'
and date < adddate('2009-12-19', interval 1 day)
So, in your case, something like this should do the trick :
select *
from table
where date >= '$date'
and date < adddate('$date', interval 1 day)
order by score desc

You probably want to format the data when you select it:
SELECT *, DATE_FORMAT(date, '%Y-%m-%d') AS dateformat FROM table
WHERE dateformat = '$date' ORDER BY score DESC

You are comparing datetime and date expression, that is why its not working. Use Date() method to return the date part from datetime and then do the comparison. WHERE DATE(date) = '$date' should do. You might have to use aliases to handle this name collision.

Related

DateTime condition [duplicate]

I get a datetime field, that's currently in the query as:
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(x.date_entered, '%Y-%m-%d') AS date FROM x ORDER BY date ASC
What I want to do is to subtract 3 hours from that date (GMT issues), but I can't do it in PHP as PHP only knows the date part, not the time.
mySQL has DATE_SUB():
SELECT DATE_SUB(column, INTERVAL 3 HOUR)....
but would it not be better to try and sort out the underlying time zone issue instead?
Assuming you have some timezone issue and know source and destination timezone, you could convert it like so
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(CONVERT_TZ(x.date_entered, 'UTC', 'Europe/Berlin'),
'%Y-%m-%d') AS date
FROM x ORDER BY date ASC;
Normal select query.
Once applied DATE_ADD() function in MySQL
select lastname,
date_add(changedat, interval -24 hour) as newdate
from employee_audit;
lastname and changedat is field name and employee_audit is table name.

Query MYSQL with a date in the format of 10-OCT-15

I am trying to query a MYSQL database to return all records with today's date -
SELECT *
FROM credit_application
created_on = '15-OCT-15';
But it's failing because of the 'OCT' part within the query. How can I resolve this please?
Use mysql DATE_FORMAT function
SELECT *
FROM credit_application
DATE_FORMAT(created_on,'%d-%b-%y') = '15-OCT-15';
Use mysql STR_TO_DATE function
SELECT *
FROM credit_application
created_on = STR_TO_DATE('15-OCT-15', '%d-%b-%y');
Of course, this assumes your created_on field is just a DATE. If it's actually a DATETIME or TIMESTAMP, then you'll need to do a range query instead:
SELECT *
FROM credit_application
created_on >= STR_TO_DATE('15-OCT-15', '%d-%b-%y') AND
created_on < DATE_ADD(STR_TO_DATE('15-OCT-15', '%d-%b-%y'), INTERVAL 1 DAY);
The other suggestions of using DATE_FORMAT would require the function to be applied to every row in the table, preventing use of any index you might have. It would be a non-sargable query.

how to search current date in mysql database that store standard date as ('Y-m-d H:i:s')?

I store standard date ( with this format: ('Y-m-d H:i:s') ) in mysql database, now i want to select records that match this standard date with current date, in other word i want to select the rows where standard_date field demonstrate today's date.
use DATE() to strip off time in the datetime column. CURDATE() returns the current date.
SELECT *
FROM tableName
WHERE DATE(standard_date) = CURDATE()
SQLFiddle Demo (DATE() vs without DATE())
Just use:
select * from mytable where date(standard_date) = curdate();
select * from tablename where date = CURDATE()
CURDATE() returns the current date.
If you use DATE type, use CURDATE() function -
SELECT * FROM table WHERE date_field = CURDATE()
If you use DATETIME type, use CURDATE() function and DATE() function to get date part from datetime value -
SELECT * FROM table WHERE DATE(date_time_field) = CURDATE()

How to compare timestamp dates with date-only parameter in MySQL?

In a SQL statement, how do I compare a date saved as TIMESTAMP with a date in YYYY-MM-DD format?
Ex.: SELECT * FROM table WHERE timestamp = '2012-05-25'
I want this query returns all rows having timestamp in the specified day, but it returns only rows having midnight timestamp.
thanks
You can use the DATE() function to extract the date portion of the timestamp:
SELECT * FROM table
WHERE DATE(timestamp) = '2012-05-25'
Though, if you have an index on the timestamp column, this would be faster because it could utilize an index on the timestamp column if you have one:
SELECT * FROM table
WHERE timestamp BETWEEN '2012-05-25 00:00:00' AND '2012-05-25 23:59:59'
As suggested by some, by using DATE(timestamp) you are applying manipulation to the column and therefore you cannot rely on the index ordering.
However, using BETWEEN would only be reliable if you include the milliseconds. In the example timestamp BETWEEN '2012-05-05 00:00:00' AND '2012-05-05 23:59:59' you exclude records with a timestamp between 2012-05-05 23:59:59.001 and 2012-05-05 23:59:59.999. However, even this method has some problems, because of the datatypes precision. Occasionally 999 milliseconds is rounded up.
The best thing to do is:
SELECT * FROM table
WHERE date>='2012-05-05' AND date<'2012-05-06'
WHERE cast(timestamp as date) = '2012-05-05'
SELECT * FROM table WHERE timestamp >= '2012-05-05 00:00:00'
AND timestamp <= '2012-05-05 23:59:59'
Use a conversion function of MYSQL :
SELECT * FROM table WHERE DATE(timestamp) = '2012-05-05'
This should work
As I was researching this I thought it would be nice to modify the BETWEEN solution to show an example for a particular non-static/string date, but rather a variable date, or today's such as CURRENT_DATE(). This WILL use the index on the log_timestamp column.
SELECT *
FROM some_table
WHERE
log_timestamp
BETWEEN
timestamp(CURRENT_DATE())
AND # Adds 23.9999999 HRS of seconds to the current date
timestamp(DATE_ADD(CURRENT_DATE(), INTERVAL '86399.999999' SECOND_MICROSECOND));
I did the seconds/microseconds to avoid the 12AM case on the next day. However, you could also do `INTERVAL '1 DAY' via comparison operators for a more reader-friendly non-BETWEEN approach:
SELECT *
FROM some_table
WHERE
log_timestamp >= timestamp(CURRENT_DATE()) AND
log_timestamp < timestamp(DATE_ADD(CURRENT_DATE(), INTERVAL 1 DAY));
Both of these approaches will use the index and should perform MUCH faster. Both seem to be equally as fast.
SELECT * FROM table WHERE DATE(timestamp) = '2012-05-25'
It will work but not used index on "timestamp" column if you have any because of DATE function. below query used index and give better performance
SELECT * FROM table WHERE timestamp >= '2012-05-05 00:00:00'
AND timestamp <= '2012-05-05 23:59:59'
OR
SELECT * FROM table
WHERE timestamp >= '2012-05-05' AND timestamp < '2012-05-06'
Try running these to check stats
explain SELECT * FROM table
WHERE DATE(timestamp) = '2012-05-25'
explain SELECT * FROM table WHERE timestamp >= '2012-05-05 00:00:00'
AND timestamp <= '2012-05-05 23:59:59'
In case you are using SQL parameters to run the query then this would be helpful
SELECT * FROM table WHERE timestamp between concat(date(?), ' ', '00:00:00') and concat(date(?), ' ', '23:59:59')
When I read your question, I thought your were on Oracle DB until I saw the tag 'MySQL'. Anyway, for people working with Oracle here is the way:
SELECT *
FROM table
where timestamp = to_timestamp('21.08.2017 09:31:57', 'dd-mm-yyyy hh24:mi:ss');
Use
SELECT * FROM table WHERE DATE(2012-05-05 00:00:00) = '2012-05-05'
Let me leave here it may help someone
For people coming from nodejs and expressjs
getDailyIssueOperations(dateName, date, status) {
const queryText = `
select count(*) as total from issues
where date(${dateName})='${date}' and status='${status}';
`;
},
in case date and column name are variables please find the implementation usefull

Date SQL query doesn't work as expected

I have the following query:
SELECT * FROM incomings WHERE date >= '2011-04-01%' AND date <= '2011-04-29%'
And it shows results from 01-04 to 28-04. This may be a weird question but, it I think it should show results from 29-04 too, right?
What's wrong?
Your syntax is odd. That query would normally be written:
SELECT * FROM incomings WHERE date >= '2011-04-01' AND date <= '2011-04-29'
I think from the way that you're trying to query the data that your date column is actually a DATETIME or TIMESTAMP column. If that's the case then '2011-04-29%' will be being cast to '2011-04-29 00:00:00'
I would recommend you use this SQL instead:
SELECT * FROM incomings WHERE date >= '2011-04-01' AND date < '2011-04-30'
What is the purpose of the "%" here (besides making the date invalid) ?
If "date" is of type DATETIME, then :
'2011-04-29 00:00:00' is <= to '2011-04-29'
'2011-04-29 00:00:01' is not <= to '2011-04-29'
You don't need the leading %, the date without hours is interpreted as midnight (or the very start) of given date.