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

For anyone who wants this as a saved view (MySQL doesn't support nested select statements in views):

create view zero_to_nine as
    select 0 as n union all 
    select 1 union all 
    select 2 union all 
    select 3 union all 
    select 4 union all 
    select 5 union all 
    select 6 union all 
    select 7 union all 
    select 8 union all 
    select 9;

create view date_range as
    select curdate() - INTERVAL (a.n + (10 * b.n) + (100 * c.n)) DAY as date
    from zero_to_nine as a
    cross join zero_to_nine as b
    cross join zero_to_nine as c;

You can then do

select * from date_range

to get

date
---
2017-06-06
2017-06-05
2017-06-04
2017-06-03
2017-06-02
...