Question

I have the following problem:

In mysql I have a table which contains two date columns start_date and end_date. The date format is yyyy-mm-dd. What I am trying to do is to get all data from all the rows where a specific date, lets say ‘2012-03-05’ mateches one of these date columns or are something in between.

How can I create a good sql-query that gets the data needed? I’ve checked on the between statement but I don’t really know if that’s the best way to go. I guess this is generally a simple task but I just can’t figure a good query out.

Thanks.

Answer 1

SELECT * FROM table WHERE start_date <= '2012-02-29' AND end_date >= '2012-02-29';

Should do it.