On Wednesday 11 May 2005 09:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

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