Fetchingrecordsbetweentwodateranges

WecancollectrecordsbetweentwodatefieldsofatablebyusingBETWEENquery.Wecanusethistoget
recordsbetweentwoyearsorbetweentwomonth.Wecancombineallthisandtryforgettingrecords
betweentwodateranges.

Betweentwoyears
Wewillfirststartwithdisplayingrecordsbetweentwoyears.Beforethatyoucanreadonhowtogetyear
partfromadatefield.Nowletustrytogetrecordsbetweenyear2004and2005.Hereisourquery

SELECT*FROM`dt_tb`WHEREyear(dt2)between2004and2005

INtheabovequerydt2isourdatefieldandintheresultboththeyears2004and2005willbeincludedinour
records.

Betweentwomonthranges.
RelatedTutorialDateDifferenceLast15daysrecordRecordsoflast10minutesBetweenarangeofRecords
Nowletuscollecttherecordsbetweentwomonths.Notethatifweareusingonlymonthinourbetween
commandthenforanyyeartherangeofmonthwespecifiedwillbereturnedbythequery.Forexampleifwe
askforrecordsbetweenFebandAugmonthsthenwewillgetrecordsofbetweenthemonthFebandAugfor
alltheyears.Hereistheexample.

SELECT*FROM`dt_tb`WHEREmonth(dt)between'02'and'08'

TheabovequerywillreturnusrecordsofallthemonthsbetweenFebruaryandAugustofanyyear.Wecan
specifytheyearalsoalongwiththemonthslikethis

SELECT*FROM`dt_tb`WHEREmonth(dt)between'02'and'08'andyear(dt)between2004and2005

Therearemoredetailsonhowtogetthemonthpartofanydatefieldhere.

Betweentwodateranges
Nowletusmovetoselectarangeofrecordsbetweentwodates.Hereisthesqlforthis

SELECT*FROM`dt_tb`WHEREdtBETWEEN'20050101'AND'20051231'

DateFormattouseinquery
Youhaveseenwehaveused'Ymd'dateformatinourquery.Wemaynotgetdataalwaysinthisformatso
hereisthePHPcodetoconverttothisformatbeforeusinginsideaquery.

$date=newDateTime($dt2);

$dt2=$date>format('Ymd');

Similarlyyoucanchangevariable$dt1tonewdateformat.
Nowwecanuseinsideourquery.

SELECT*FROM`dt_tb`WHEREdtBETWEENBETWEEN'$dt1'AND'$dt2'

GenerateQuerybyusingdatesfromCalendar

DEMOofhowdateisusedtocollectrecords

HereisthecodeforSQldumpofthefiletocreateyourtablefortesting.

CREATETABLEdt_tb(

idint(2)NOTNULLauto_increment,

dtdatetimeNOTNULLdefault'0000000000:00:00',

dt2dateNOTNULLdefault'00000000',

PRIMARYKEY(id)

);

#Dumpingdatafortable`dt_tb`

INSERTINTOdt_tbVALUES(1,'2004102600:00:00','20050125');

INSERTINTOdt_tbVALUES(2,'2004050523:56:25','20050612');

INSERTINTOdt_tbVALUES(3,'2005120813:20:10','20050606');

INSERTINTOdt_tbVALUES(4,'2003052600:00:00','20071218');

INSERTINTOdt_tbVALUES(5,'2007121800:00:00','20030816');