Incorrect parameter count in the call to native function 'DATEDIFF'

Question

I get the error from this line

SELECT table.field
FROM table
WHERE table.month = \'october\'
AND DATEDIFF(day, table.start_date, table.end_date) < 30


        

Answer 1

@alex_b it is a very common observation to get confused between the syntaxes of the DATEDIFF & TIMESTAMPDIFF functions. Following link will certainly help with the syntax of DATEDIFF & this page will list all the others date related functions available in MariaDB's parent MySQL.\

Referencing the links above below is a summary -

TIMEDIFF(expr1,expr2)
expr1 - '2000:01:01 00:00:00'
expr2 - '2000:01:01 00:00:00.000001'

TIMEDIFF() returns expr1 − expr2 expressed as a time value. expr1 and expr2 are time or date-and-time expressions, but both must be of the same type.

DATEDIFF(expr1,expr2)
expr1 - '2007-12-31 23:59:59'
expr2 - '2007-12-30'

DATEDIFF() returns expr1 − expr2 expressed as a value in days from one date to the other. expr1 and expr2 are date or date-and-time expressions. Only the date parts of the values are used in the calculation.

Below is the scenario I used it for -

• using CURDATE for current date as 'argument1'
• using existing varchar column as 'argument2'
• using SET command to update a column

SET output_date = DATEDIFF(CURDATE(),input_date), ... above worked for me. Good luck!

Answer 2

According to the documentation for MariaDB DATEDIFF only takes two arguments:

Syntax

DATEDIFF(expr1,expr2)

Description

DATEDIFF() returns (expr1 – expr2) expressed as a value in days from one date to the other. expr1 and expr2 are date or date-and-time expressions. Only the date parts of the values are used in the calculation.