comparing dates by month and year in mysql

Question

I have a table containing data about events and festivals with following columns recording their start and end dates.

• Start_Date
• End_Date

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Answer 1

Comparing the year and month separately feels messy. I like to contain it in one line. I doubt it will make a noticeable difference in performance, so its purely personal preference.

select * from your_table
where LAST_DAY(Start_Date) = LAST_DAY(curdate())
and end_date <= curdate() + interval 30 day

So all I'm doing is using the last_day function to check the last day of the month of each date and then comparing this common denominator. You could also use

where DATE_FORMAT(Start_Date ,'%Y-%m-01') = DATE_FORMAT(curdate(),'%Y-%m-01')