Question

I have a form with a text field, where the user will provide the year only and MySQL data should return all the data for the given year. But in MySQL database, the date is given in date(yyyy-mm-dd) format.

Can anyone suggest the SQL query which will fetch all the data for that particular year?

Answer 1

try this one, use the MySQL YEAR function.

SELECT *
FROM tableName
WHERE YEAR(dateCOlumn) = 2012

so in the given example, the server will select all records where year is equal to 2012.

UPDATE 1

SQLFiddle Demo

YEAR