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Asked: 2026-06-13T11:43:31+00:00

I would like to filter out old records and present only newer ones. The

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I would like to filter out old records and present only newer ones. The idea is currentDate minus 2 years. One record looks like this (table Symposium):

Attributes:

ID;Day;Month;Year;Firstname;Lastname;Symposium_title;Speakers;

Records

1;26;10;2012;Markus;Meier;Topic MySQL;5;
3;26;10;2011;Markus;Meier;Topic PHP;5;
6;26;01;2010;Markus;Meier;Topic CSS;5;

Wished output

1;26;10;2012;Markus;Meier;Topic MySQL;5;
3;26;10;2011;Markus;Meier;Topic PHP;5;

I could easily do a small php to filter out older data, but I’m sure there is a way to do it direct with mysql in one command.

some query like this (this is just pseudo code)

SELECT * FROM Symposium WHERE (current_data() - 2 Years);

remark: The attributes day;month;year will not be changed. There are more then 50 tables, that are build up by this attributes. So don’t recommend change of the table.

Can someone help me ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use STR_TO_DATE function and DATE_ADD for this task:

    syntax:

    STR_TO_DATE(string, format)

    So in your code:

    SELECT * from Symposium
WHERE DATE_ADD(STR_TO_DATE(concat(Day,'-',Month,'-',Year),'%d-%m-%Y'), INTERVAL 2 YEAR) > NOW();

    (sadly, I don’t have a MySQL at hand right now, so I can’t test it, but unless there is some very basic typo in it, it should work)

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