Thanks to all those who replied, it worked fine.... --------------------------------------------------------- Chris Kay (Systems Development) Techex Communications Website: www.techex.com.au Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telephone: 1300 88 111 2 - Fax: (02) 9970 5788 ---------------------------------------------------------
-----Original Message----- From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 4:28 PM To: Chris Kay; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Date caculation is a select query At 11:03 +1100 12/4/02, Chris Kay wrote: >How would I go about grabbing all records where a field is older than 21 >days and set to a certain status. Dunno what you mean by "set to a certain status", but the other part will be: WHERE datetime_field < DATE_SUB(NOW(),INTERVAL 21 DAY) > >I tried INTERVIAL 21 Day but I cant seem to get it to work Seems like you were on the right track, but you don't show your actual query, so we can't comment on it. > >Field in the database is datetime > >Am I doing something wrong? Or is there a easier way to do this, would >someone mind giving me a example query where I would add 21 days to a >datetime field > > >Mysql, query >--------------------------------------------------------- >Chris Kay (Systems Development) >Techex Communications >Website: www.techex.com.au Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Telephone: 1300 88 111 2 - Fax: (02) 9970 5788 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
