Question

I think, i need the opposite of mysql’s BETWEEN function.
I have a given date (example ‘2013-09-14’) and a mysql-table filled with date ranges like:

date_from  | date_to    | someotherdata  
2013-08-07 | 2013-08-29 | ...  
2013-09-13 | 2013-09-16 | ...  
2013-09-21 | 2013-09-27 | ...  

(this is given, i cannot change the structure)

I want to select all entrys, where my given date is between date_from and date_to, but this does not work with BETWEEN 🙁

Any good ideas?

Answer 1

You can use between like that:

select * from your_table
where '2013-01-25' between date_from and date_to 

SQLFiddle demo

There is no need for a column name before the between. It can be a static date too.