I am trying to calculate how old is a person in a database.
Let's suppose to have this simple table:
student(id, birth_date);
Where id is the primary key (truly the table is more complex but I have simplified it).
I want to get how much old is a single person:
select id, datediff(curdate(),birth_date)
from student
But it returns a result in days, and not in years.I could divide it by 365:
select id, datediff(curdate(),birth_date) / 365
from student
But it returns a floating point value, and I want an integer.
So I could calculate the years:
select id, year(curdate())-year(birth_date)
from student
But there is a problem: for instance now is May, if a person war born in June, 1970 he has still 31 years and not 32, but the expression returns 32.
I can't come out of this problem, can someone help me?
解决方案
For anyone who comes across this:
another way this can be done is:
SELECT TIMESTAMPDIFF(YEAR, date_of_birth, CURDATE()) AS difference FROM student
For differences in months, replace YEAR with MONTH, and for days replace YEAR with DAY
Hope that helps!