Question

I am trying to select records that have the curent month using:

SELECT * FROM postdata 
ORDER BY postdate DESC 
WHERE MONTH(postdate) = MONTH(CURRENT_DATE)

The date format for postdate is YYYY-MM-DD (2012-06-30 for example), but unfortunately no records are being returned. Is this the corrent MySQL statement to use?

Answer 1

It isn’t fully clear that this is your intent, but it seems likely so I’ll contribute as an answer:

Aside from your ORDER BY being out of place, you must compare both the month and the date. Since the function MONTH() returns only a number 1 through 12, the query would return all records for June of all years, rather than only the current year. Use both MONTH(), YEAR() to compare months for the current year.

SELECT * FROM postdata     
WHERE 
  MONTH(postdate) = MONTH(CURDATE())
  AND YEAR(postdate) = YEAR(CURDATE())
ORDER BY postdate DESC