Question

I have an table called TableA which has a column called date_entered which is of datetime type. I need to count the number of TableA rows that have been added on a given date.

To accomplish this I must CAST the datetime to a date and COUNT the number of rows that match the given date but i’m unsure how to write this query.

Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Use

select count(*)
from tableA
where date(date_entered) = '2012-11-15'

to count all rows for that date even if the records contain NULL values.

Or use count(specific_column) to count rows that don’t contain NULL values for that column.