Question

I am trying to select a row from a table assuming that the kick off time is within an hour’s range of the current time.

The table is just an id and a datetime field.

SELECT * FROM kick_offs WHERE NOW() BETWEEN (DATE_SUB(`time`, INTERVAL 30 MINUTES)) AND (DATE_ADD(`time`, INTERVAL 30 MINUTES))

SELECT * FROM kick_offs WHERE `time` BETWEEN (DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL 30 MINUTES)) AND (DATE_ADD(NOW(), INTERVAL 30 MINUTES))

These two queries both fail. I’m not really sure why. The server is running MySQL 5.0. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Not sure where you got your SQL from, but this should do it I think.

  SELECT * FROM kick_offs WHERE `time` < DATE_ADD(NOW(), INTERVAL 1 HOUR) AND `time`>= NOW()

See:
Display rows from MySQL where a datetime is within the next hour