Question

I have a MySQL table called history that includes a column called month: January, February, March, etc. and a column called day_num containing day numbers from 1 to 31.

I need to be able to select a month and a day from the two corresponding columns, based on the current month and day.

I know it’s a rather embarrasingly basic question, but – how do I do that?

SELECT month, day_num FROM history WHERE ??????? ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1; 

Would appreciate a bit of advice from a knowledgeable person.

Answer 1

SELECT  *
FROM    History
WHERE   DATE_FORMAT(CURDATE(), '%M') = `month` AND
        DAY(CURDATE()) = `day_num`

• SQLFiddle Demo

OR

SELECT  *
FROM    History
WHERE   MONTHNAME(CURDATE()) = `month` AND
        DAY(CURDATE()) = `day_num`

• SQLFiddle Demo

Other Sources

• MONTHNAME
• DAY