Question

I have following mysql tables.

1. members
----------
|id |name|
----------
|001|aaa |
|002|bbb |
|003|ccc |
|004|ddd |
----------

2. membershipfees
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|id |date      |
----------------
|001|2012-01-01|
|002|2012-01-01|
----------------

I want to show list of the members who not paid the fees for the current month. My php code is,

SELECT Members.id, Members.Name FROM Members
    LEFT JOIN MembershipFees
    ON Members.id = MembersipFees.id
    WHERE DATE_FORMAT(MembershipFees.Date, '%Y%m') <> DATE_FORMAT(NOW(), '%Y%m')
    ORDER BY Members.id ASC

But it shows 0 rows. Any suggestions please.

Answer 1

You need to put MembersipFees.id IS NULL condition is where clause. Also if date field is varchar column then you should be using STR_TO_DATE function.

SELECT Members.id, Members.Name
FROM Members
     LEFT JOIN membershipfees
        ON Members.id = membershipfees.id
           AND DATE_FORMAT(STR_TO_DATE(membershipfees.`Date`, '%d-%m-%Y'), '%Y%m') = 
                           DATE_FORMAT(NOW(), '%Y%m')
WHERE membershipfees.id IS NULL
ORDER BY Members.id ASC;

SEE SQLFIDDLE DEMO HERE