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date query

Hi all,

I have a l list of persons and birthdays (stored as a date eg:
1980-07-11). I want to query the 4 first persons that will have their
birtday. Can this be done via query?

Thanks in advance
Stijn

Jul 17 '05 #1
4 2309
Yes.
If possible, it might be'd better if you remove
the dashs from the date, anyway:

Something like the following:

SELECT * FROM birthdays WHERE birthday < $today ORDER BY birthday DESC
LIMIT 4

Jul 17 '05 #2
Tarscher wrote:
Hi all,

I have a l list of persons and birthdays (stored as a date eg:
1980-07-11). I want to query the 4 first persons that will have their
birtday. Can this be done via query?

Thanks in advance
Stijn


Probably.

Unless you're using GDBM or similar you might be better asking the question
on a forum for your DBMS. You didn't say what that was so I can't point you
in the right direction.

C.
Jul 17 '05 #3
I want to receive the first 4 people that van their birthday after
today and still having problems. I tried to use
SELECT naam, birthdays FROM tblperson
WHERE birthdays <= $today
ORDER BY DAYOFYEAR(birthdays ) LIMIT 4

$today yyyy-mm-dd

I have some issues here
- When I encapsulate $today in '' I don't receive any results
- When applying the order by clause birthdays all the oldest persons
are returned
- When applying the order by clause DAYOFYEAR(birthdays) all the
persons in January are returned

When I query end of december I also want to get the people that have
their birthday in January. Will this work with birthdays <= $today?
I use MySQL

I hope someone can help me out

Jul 17 '05 #4
Tarscher spilled the following:
I want to receive the first 4 people that van their birthday after
today and still having problems. I tried to use
SELECT naam, birthdays FROM tblperson
WHERE birthdays <= $today
ORDER BY DAYOFYEAR(birthdays ) LIMIT 4

$today yyyy-mm-dd

I have some issues here
- When I encapsulate $today in '' I don't receive any results
- When applying the order by clause birthdays all the oldest persons
are returned
- When applying the order by clause DAYOFYEAR(birthdays) all the
persons in January are returned

When I query end of december I also want to get the people that have
their birthday in January. Will this work with birthdays <= $today?
I use MySQL


Getting there - but you still leave us to do some guessing.

Try:

SELECT * FROM tblperson
WHERE DAYOFYEAR(birthdays) >= DAYOFYEAR(CURDATE())

C.

Jul 17 '05 #5

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