On Wednesday 11 May 2005 09:17, mwestern@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a small problem. > > I have a project in which someone has got three integer fields for > holding the date. DD, MM, YYYY in an sql database. I now have to > have a page that inputs two dates and select records between those two > dates. > > If I had a date field in the table it would be fairly simple, but I'm > hoping to do this search/comparison without having to rewrite the > pages/database that has already been designed. > > > Start Date: 11/05/2005 > End Date: 11/04/2005 > SELECT * FROM blah WHERE mm BETWEEN 04 AND 05 AND dd BETWEEN 11 AND 11 > AND yyyy BETWEEN 2005 AND 2005 > > Doesn't work for obvious reasons. Is there any way that I can do > this date comparison I the SQL statement without having a decent date > field? Yes there's a way ;-) But you've mixed the month and day in the query. The standart textual format is MM/DD/YYYY :-) SELECT * FROM blah WHERE mm BETWEEN 11 AND 11 AND dd BETWEEN 4 AND 5 AND yyyy BETWEEN 2005 AND 2005 > My apologies as this is australian date format and this list is in the > US I think? > Regards > Matthew -- Cyberly yours, Petar Nedyalkov Devoted Orbitel Fan :-) PGP ID: 7AE45436 PGP Public Key: http://bu.orbitel.bg/pgp/bu.asc PGP Fingerprint: 7923 8D52 B145 02E8 6F63 8BDA 2D3F 7C0B 7AE4 5436
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