Question

When I tried to select records for specific month and year when I search I found half a solution

mysql: select all entries from a particular month using PHP

select * 
from thetable 
where monthname(date_field) = 'February'

then i modify it following

select * 
from payments 
where monthname(date) = 'February' and EXTRACT(date )='2011';

but it show error what is correct way to select mounth and year
in my table i store date as 2011-2-4

Answer 1

it seems that your column is not in a Date data type, so the best way you can do is to convert it first to DATE using STR_TO_DATE

SELECT  *
FROM    Payments
WHERE   MONTHNAME(STR_TO_DATE(date,'%Y-%c-%e')) = 'FEBRUARY' AND
        YEAR(STR_TO_DATE(date,'%Y-%c-%e')) = 2011