Question

I have the following query:

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM leads WHERE create_date > '06:00' AND create_date < '18:00';
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM leads WHERE create_date > '06:00' AND create_date < '18:00';

However, the create_date column looks like ‘2011-08-26 10:18:01’ and i want to find everything between just those time periods, regardless of the day.

How can I just query the time from the create_date values?

How would also find all values not within those time periods?
NOT BETWEEN ….

Answer 1

To get the time from the date, you can use the TIME() function.

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM leads WHERE TIME(create_date) > '06:00' AND create_date < '18:00';
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM leads WHERE TIME(create_date) > '06:00' AND create_date < '18:00';

To find times outside this range, just invert everything in your where clauses.

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM leads WHERE TIME(create_date) < '06:00' AND create_date > '18:00';
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM leads WHERE TIME(create_date) < '06:00' AND create_date > '18:00';