I use mySql 5 and IIS.
I have products, that have a start date field and an end date field.
I need to run a query that will take user entered Start and End dates, and output the number of days that the product ran within the date range.
Example:
Offer1 - July 1 2011 thru July 31 2011
Query - July 1 2011 thru Sept 15 2011
Results = 31
Example:
Offer1 - July 1 2011 thru July 31 2011
Query - July 1 2011 thru July 15 2011
Results = 15
解决方案
If your products have a start_date and an end_date and your query has a qstart_date and a qend_date, then we want the number of days between:
GREATEST(start_date, qstart_date)
and
LEAST(end_date,qend_date)
. In MySQL I think this looks like
1 + DATEDIFF ( 'd' , GREATEST(start_date, qstart_date) , LEAST(end_date,qend_date) )
And you'll want to ignore negative numbers, replacing them with "0".