Question

I have 2 columns, start and end.

I need to filter the results to ensure that today’s date is between start and end. The date is stored in MM/DD/YYYY syntax. e.g. 02/05/2011

Can anyone show me how this is done please?

"SELECT * FROM albums WHERE active=1 AND ..."

Thanks.

Answer 1

select
    *
from 
    albums
where
    active=1
    and STR_TO_DATE(begin_date,'%m/%d/%Y') <= CURDATE()
    and CURDATE() <= STR_TO_DATE(end_date,'%m/%d/%Y')

But dates shouldn’t be stored as varchar. They should be stored as dates.