Question

I have a table with a row named time of type DATETIME.

How can I select all rows which ‘live’ no more than 5 days?

Or in other words, how can I grab data which has timestamp not more then 5 days ago?

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My request:

SELECT * 
FROM `stats` 
WHERE `domain` = 'test.com' AND DATEADD(NOW(), interval -5 day) > 'accept_date'

accept_date is the real name of a row. So , with that code I got:

1064 – You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘) > ‘accept_date’ LIMIT 0, 30′ at line 1

Answer 1

It depends on the RDBMS but in MySQL it would be

where date_add(now(), interval -5 day) > time

or

where datediff(now(), time) < 5

The first means “120 hours have passed since”, the second means “5 calendar days have passed since”.

time is a terrible column name, by the way. Time of what?