Question

I have write this code but not get proper record.

1.

SELECT first_name,date 
from user where date between  '01-05-2012' and '05-05-2012'

2.

SELECT first_name,date from user 
where date >= '01-05-2012' date <= '05-05-2012'

What is the problem in above code? What will be the write query?

Here is Sample data

first_name  date
Sonu    23-01-2012
Saqib   20-02-2012
Sachin  01-04-2012
Ankit   17-08-2012
Michal  12-13-2011

Answer 1

Convert your date first using STR_TO_DATE

SELECT *
FROM table1
WHERE STR_TO_DATE(`date`,'%d-%m-%Y') 
      BETWEEN '2012-05-01' AND '2012-12-05'

This will select dates starting from June 01 2012 until December 05 2012

SQLFiddle Demo

if you really want to stick with your format,

SELECT *
FROM table1
WHERE STR_TO_DATE(`date`,'%d-%m-%Y') 
      BETWEEN STR_TO_DATE('01-05-2012','%d-%m-%Y') AND 
              STR_TO_DATE('05-12-2012','%d-%m-%Y')

SQLFiddle Demo