Thread: BirthDay SQL Issue

Hi there

This is my first posting here, please forgive me if I make any
mistakes here.

Ok 

I have the structure 

{CLIENTS} = Client ID, First Name, Surname, DOB, Address, Home Phone
No, Mobile Phone No

As one relation / table (There are several others in this db that are
not related to this issue)

My problem is this

I need to be able to select two dates on my webby so I have a range of
dates 

E.G. (using English date format DD/MM/YYYY)

01/09/2005 to 01/10/2005

Then I want to be able to get, using some nifty query, everyone's
birthday that falls between those two dates. So if someone's birthday
was 04/09/79 it would return that tuple

I have been stuck on this for ages. Any my search for help has brought
me here.

If anyone out there can help me, in any way, I would be very grateful.

Kind regards
Brett Halligan

brett wrote:
> I need to be able to select two dates on my webby so I have a range of
> dates 

> Then I want to be able to get, using some nifty query, everyone's
> birthday that falls between those two dates. So if someone's birthday
> was 04/09/79 it would return that tuple
> 
> I have been stuck on this for ages. Any my search for help has brought
> me here.

You need to look at it from a different angle - don't try comparing 
dates, compare text instead.

=> SELECT to_char('2005-03-04'::date, 'MMDD'); to_char
--------- 0304
(1 row)

That should do it.

Oh - you might want to read up on functional indexes in the manual too, 
if this is a query you'll be running regularly.

--  Richard Huxton  Archonet Ltd

brett <bhalligan@yahoo.com> schrieb:

> Hi there
> 
> This is my first posting here, please forgive me if I make any
> mistakes here.
> 
> Ok 
> 
> I have the structure 
> 
> {CLIENTS} = Client ID, First Name, Surname, DOB, Address, Home Phone
> No, Mobile Phone No
> 
> As one relation / table (There are several others in this db that are
> not related to this issue)
> 
> My problem is this
> 
> I need to be able to select two dates on my webby so I have a range of
> dates 

I wrote a function for me similar to your problem. You can visit it:
http://a-kretschmer.de/tools/birthday.sql

Maybe it is useful for you. It need one argument: a integer, and returns
a list of people who has birthday between CURRENT_DATE and this+N days.


Regards, Andreas
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On Sunday 02 Oct 2005 4:02 am, brett wrote:
> This is my first posting here, please forgive me if I make any
> mistakes here.

thought your question was dead simple. worked on the answer for hours at
end. learnt a lot of sql, but couldnt solve it. Looks like a solution
is out. All i can say is - we need more newbies like you!

--
regards
kg

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