Question

I am trying to get the all records which are 2 hours or more old using this query:

$minutes = 60 * 2

SELECT COUNT(id) AS TOTAL, job_id 
  from tlb_stats 
 WHERE log_time >= DATE_SUB(CURRENT_DATE, INTERVAL $minutes MINUTE) 
GROUP BY job_id

It only selects the recent records and skips the old. When I change log_time <= ... it only selects old and skips which are the new one.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Try:

$minutes = 60 * 2

SELECT COUNT(`id`) AS `TOTAL`, `job_id` 
  FROM `tlb_stats` 
  WHERE `log_time` < DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL $minutes MINUTE) 
  GROUP BY `job_id`

• use backticks to quote fields (words like “total” and “id” may someday mean something in MySQL)
• use NOW() for CURRENT_DATE just means 2010-08-04, not including the time
• use < to get entries older than that date.