MySql Query- Date Range within a Date Range

Question

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

Chris Cunningham · Answer 1 · 2011-07-05T22:16:00.067

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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".

edited Jul 05 '11 at 22:16

answered Jul 05 '11 at 21:41

Chris Cunningham

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+1: Could also wrap the DATEDIFF in `ABS` if the start & end get reversed. – OMG Ponies Jul 05 '11 at 21:47
@Chris: You also need to add +1 to this result. As it is, you'll get `31-1 = 30` – ypercubeᵀᴹ Jul 05 '11 at 21:52
@OMG Ponies We can't use `ABS` because then we will mess up sometimes and think that there were some overlaps. Negative numbers here mean "nope, the date ranges didn't overlap; they missed by this much." – Chris Cunningham Jul 05 '11 at 22:15

MySql Query- Date Range within a Date Range

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