generate days from date range

Question

I would like to run a query like

select ... as days where `date` is between \'2010-01-20\' and \'2010-01-24\'

And return data like:

Answer 1

if you will ever need more then a couple days, you need a table.

Create a date range in mysql

then,

select from days.day, count(mytable.field) as fields from days left join mytable on day=date where date between x and y;