SELECT MySQL rows where today's date is between two DATE columns

Question

How can I get the rows in a table where today\'s date is between (inclusive) two DATE columns of that row? For example, take these two columns of a table:

Answer 1

You will find a lot of people using between operator, but I prefer using a simple AND operator.

I do that because although the between operator IS inclusive, simple dates (2012-04-10) can be counted as being midnight, and will thus not be inclusive.

So this should work just fine and will always include the boundaries of the date range:

SELECT * FROM table WHERE from_date <= '2012-04-10' AND to_date >= '2012-04-10'