Question

I am trying to select records from a database only if they match today’s date. The format for the date in the database is 2012-06-20 9:30:00 I am using the statement SELECT id FROMnewsreportsWHERE DATE(newsdate) = CURDATE() but it doesn’t not return any records for today?

Screenshot of column with dates

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Answer 1

DATE_FORMAT(NOW(),'%Y-%m-%d') = FORMAT_DATE(NOW(newsdate), '%Y-%m-%d')

Or better:

DATE(newsdate) = DATE(NOW())

The best way is to store the additional column with 2001-09-11 date format and compare this one

Example, thanks to @Conrad Frix