MySQL compare DATE string with string from DATETIME field MySQL compare DATE string with string from DATETIME field mysql mysql

MySQL compare DATE string with string from DATETIME field


Use the following:

SELECT * FROM `calendar` WHERE DATE(startTime) = '2010-04-29'

Just for reference I have a 2 million record table, I ran a similar query.Salils answer took 4.48 seconds, the above took 2.25 seconds.

So if the table is BIG I would suggest this rather.


If you want to select all rows where the DATE part of a DATETIME column matches a certain literal, you cannot do it like so:

WHERE startTime = '2010-04-29'

because MySQL cannot compare a DATE and a DATETIME directly. What MySQL does, it extends the given DATE literal with the time '00:00:00'. So your condition becomes

WHERE startTime = '2010-04-29 00:00:00'

Certainly not what you want!

The condition is a range and hence it should be given as range. There are several possibilities:

WHERE startTime BETWEEN '2010-04-29 00:00:00' AND '2010-04-29 23:59:59'WHERE startTime >= '2010-04-29' AND startTime < ('2010-04-29' + INTERVAL 1 DAY)

There is a tiny possibility for the first to be wrong - when your DATETIME column uses subsecond resolution and there is an appointment at 23:59:59 + epsilon. In general I suggest to use the second variant.

Both variants can use an index on startTime which will become important when the table grows.


SELECT * FROM `calendar` WHERE DATE_FORMAT(startTime, "%Y-%m-%d") = '2010-04-29'"

OR

SELECT * FROM `calendar` WHERE DATE(startTime) = '2010-04-29'