Question

I am trying to search for studentID within a date range.
I only have one date in my database, therfore i only want the users to input one date, rather than having them input a start date and an end date for:
WHERE timeStamp BETWEEN startDate AND endDate

So i am trying this…

SELECT * FROM scansTable
INNER JOIN registeredUsers ON scansTable.studentID = registeredUsers.id
INNER JOIN labSession ON scansTable.labSessionID = labSession.id
INNER JOIN staffTable ON labSession.lecturer = staffTable.id
INNER JOIN unitTable ON labSession.unit = unitTable.id
WHERE studentID = '10'
AND labSession.StartTimeStamp BETWEEN '2011 -05 -30'+00:00:00
AND '2011 -05 -30'+23:59:59;

But it is not returning anything when i know for sure there is a student of id 10 and that date range in the database

Am i doing the +00:00:00 wrong??

thanks

Answer 1

It seems you are using something like '2011 -05 -30'+00:00:00, where you should use '2011-05-30 00:00:00' (and make corresponsing changes to the second condition), because TIMESTAMP format (I assume this field is in this format) is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.

Did it help? If not, give use the definition of the table plus the example row (at least both timestamp columns).

EDIT:

If you wanted to concatenate, you should have used CONCAT() function (see MySQL’s documentation). It would look like this:

CONCAT('2011-05-30',' 00:00:00')

or, more meaningfully:

CONCAT_WS(' ','2011-05-30','00:00:00')