mysql return rows matching year month

Question

How would I go about doing a query that returns results of all rows that contain dates for current year and month at the time of query.

Timestamps for each row are for

Answer 1

you could extract the year and month using a function, but that will not be able to use an index.

if you want scalable performance, you need to do this:

SELECT *
  FROM myTable
 WHERE some_date_column BETWEEN '2009-01-01' AND '2009-01-31'