Records between start and end date

Question

I am having two textfields which represents startDate and endDate.Now the problem I am facing is that I want all the records from the database which occured between this interval.But the field which stores date is TimeStamp and is of format :

24-APR-14 09.23.44.458000 PM or we can say dd-mm-yy hh.min.ss.milli AM/PM

Now obviously user entering the date is not going to enter it in such a format.So what should be query to select records from table say t1 between this date interval.

Answer 1

Saving Date data as Date or Datetime makes life easy. You have tagged Mysql in the question so here is a Mysql Solution.

This is what you can do

select * from
test
where
date_format(str_to_date(`date`,'%d-%b-%y'),'%Y-%m-%d') 
between '2014-04-15' AND '2014-04-24'

DEMO

You can format the user input as you want in the query in DATE_FORMAT().

Answer 2

User input will have a startdate and a enddate may be in datetime OR date variable

while trying to use these two input variables in the WHERE CLAUSE use BETWEEN CAST(@StartDate AS DATE) AND (CAST(@EndDate AS DATE) + 1)

This will fetch results that lies in both dates and the data range as well