Question

I am working on an application for an organization.
Here i have some events in database table. Now client requirements for their view are as follow.

1. First event should be today’s event (If there is any)
2. Then upcoming events should be from todays date. Like if today
   01-11-2011 then next event should be of 02-11-2011(if there is any)
   and next one should be of 03-11-2011 and so on….
3. Once all upcoming events have been listed, you can display old
   events.

I am just wondering if i can accomplish this task in just one Query. Can you suggest me some query?

Here is table structure.

Currently i have this query.

SELECT * FROM tbl_event ORDER BY event_date DESC;

This application is in Codeignitor framework and MySql is database type.

Answer 1

Something like this maybe?

SELECT * FROM tbl_event ORDER BY event_date DESC WHERE DATE(event_date) = DATE(NOW()) UNION SELECT * FROM tbl_event ORDER BY event_date DESC WHERE event_date >= NOW() UNION SELECT * FROM tlb_event ORDER_BY event_date DESC WHERE event_date < NOW()