MySQL timestamp select date range

Question

Not sure really where to start with this one. Can anyone help/point me in the right direction.

I have a timestamp column in MySQL and I want to select a date range for e

Answer 1

A compact, flexible method for timestamps without fractional seconds would be:

SELECT * FROM table_name 
WHERE field_name 
BETWEEN UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2010-10-01') AND UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2010-10-31 23:59:59')

If you are using fractional seconds and a recent version of MySQL then you would be better to take the approach of using the >= and < operators as per Wouter's answer.

Here is an example of temporal fields defined with fractional second precision (maximum precision in use):

mysql> create table time_info (t_time time(6), t_datetime datetime(6), t_timestamp timestamp(6), t_short timestamp null);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)

mysql> insert into time_info set t_time = curtime(6), t_datetime = now(6), t_short = t_datetime;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> select * from time_info;
+-----------------+----------------------------+----------------------------+---------------------+
| 22:05:34.378453 | 2016-01-11 22:05:34.378453 | 2016-01-11 22:05:34.378453 | 2016-01-11 22:05:34 |
+-----------------+----------------------------+----------------------------+---------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Answer 2

Usually it would be this:

SELECT * 
  FROM yourtable
 WHERE yourtimetimefield>='2010-10-01'
   AND yourtimetimefield< '2010-11-01'

But because you have a unix timestamps, you'll need something like this:

SELECT * 
  FROM yourtable
 WHERE yourtimetimefield>=unix_timestamp('2010-10-01')
   AND yourtimetimefield< unix_timestamp('2010-11-01')

Answer 3

This SQL query will extract the data for you. It is easy and fast.

SELECT *
  FROM table_name
  WHERE extract( YEAR_MONTH from timestamp)="201010";

Answer 4

I can see people giving lots of comments on this question. But I think, simple use of LIKE could be easier to get the data from the table.

SELECT * FROM table WHERE COLUMN LIKE '2013-05-11%'

Use LIKE and post data wild character search. Hopefully this will solve your problem.

Answer 5

Whenever possible, avoid applying functions to a column in the where clause:

SELECT *
  FROM table_name
 WHERE timestamp >= UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2010-10-01 00:00:00') 
   AND timestamp <  UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2010-11-01 00:00:00');

Applying a function to the timestamp column (e.g., FROM_UNIXTIME(timestamp) = ...) makes indexing much harder.

Answer 6

SELECT * FROM table WHERE col >= '2010-10-01' AND col <= '2010-10-31'