Question

I’m selecting records that have a certain date in a datetime column, but it feels a bit sloppy, and I’m wondering if there’s a better way. My query looks like this:

SELECT   * 
FROM     myTable 
WHERE    event_datetime 
BETWEEN  '2012-05-05 00:00:00' AND '2012-05-05 23:59:59'

and it works fine. I’m just wondering if perhaps there’s a better way to do this in mySQL.

Answer 1

Better from what perspective?

One would propose to use DATE(event_datetime) = '2012-05-05' but it is terribly inefficient.

So continue using your solution and make sure event_datetime column is covered by index