Question

I’m trying to figure out how i could select a row from there table by a WHERE clause that is a contains this or >= this?

Let me explain from the start i have a logging system on my web site it save the php $_SERVER, $_REQUEST as JSON into fields in the table

So my Table Layout is

______________________________________________
|__LogId__|___server_obj___|___request_obj___|

now I’m trying to quest via a startDate so inside the server_obj
So an example would be
"REQUEST_TIME":1333907388 is in the server_obj

field how would I query for that to be > a certain number?

I’m not afraid to use StoredProcs if thats the only way but then i’m still not sure how i would do it

Answer 1

SELECT *
FROM tblname
WHERE SUBSTRING(request_obj FROM 16) >= UNIX_TIMESTAMP()

This where the magic number 16 comes from the prefix length "REQUEST_TIME":