Question

Inside of my Auctions table, I have a column called Auction_StartDate. The value of a row is like this: 2012-10-27 13:45:30.

I need a query that will return the next closest date and time after that. So if the next Auction_StartDate is 2012-10-27 18:30:00, it should return that before the date turns to 2012-10-28.

Answer 1

May be this one helps

    SELECT DATE(Auction_StartDate) closestDate
    FROM    Auctions
    WHERE   DATE(Auction_StartDate) > '2012-10-27'
    order by Auction_StartDate ASC
    limit 1