Hotel Booking Rates SQL Problem

Question

Hi I\'ve been trying to get my own system for checking rooms rates going after reading other questions here on StackOverflow.

My query works fine and produces corre

Answer 1

Thanks for your answers, Martin your produced 2 rows but no days...Emilio your answer got me thinking about how I had set up the rates. I changed the rate table to date format instead of datetime and made the rate_end_date the same day as the next rate_start_date.

0   66  2011-01-01  2011-04-15
1   70  2011-04-15  2011-06-01
2   80  2011-06-01  2011-07-01
3   100 2011-07-01  2011-09-01
4   80  2011-09-01  2011-10-01
5   70  2011-10-01  2011-11-01
6   45  2011-11-01  2012-01-01

then dropped the +1 and

SELECT rates.rate_id, rate_start_date, rate_end_date, rate_price, 
(DATEDIFF( IF (rate_end_date > '2011-04-16' , '2011-04-16', rate_end_date), 
IF ( rate_start_date < '2011-04-14' , '2011-04-14' , rate_start_date )) ) 
AS days FROM rates WHERE rate_start_date <= '2011-04-16' 
AND rate_end_date > '2011-04-14' 
ORDER BY rate_price ASC

produced

rate_id   rate_start_date   rate_end_date   rate  days    
    0   2011-01-01  2011-04-15  66  1
    1   2011-04-15  2011-06-01  70  1

and a query with no overlapping rates from the 1st to the 8th of April:

SELECT rates.rate_id, rate_start_date, rate_end_date, rate_price, 
(DATEDIFF( IF (rate_end_date > '2011-04-08' , '2011-04-08', rate_end_date), 
IF ( rate_start_date < '2011-04-01' , '2011-04-01' , rate_start_date )) ) 
AS days FROM rates WHERE rate_start_date <= '2011-04-08' 
AND rate_end_date > '2011-04-01' 
ORDER BY rate_price ASC

produces:

rate_id   rate_start_date    rate_end_date   rate  days
    0     2011-01-01       2011-04-15     66    7

thanks agiain for your help!