Working with INTERVAL and CURDATE in MySQL

sf_tristanb picture sf_tristanb · May 8, 2010 · Viewed 164.5k times · Source

I'm building a chart and I want to receive data for each month.

Here's my first request which is working:

SELECT s.GSP_nom AS nom, timestamp, AVG( v.vote +  v.prix  ) /2 AS avg
FROM votes_serveur AS v
INNER JOIN serveur AS s ON v.idServ = s.idServ
WHERE s.valide =1
AND v.date > CURDATE() -30
GROUP BY s.GSP_nom
ORDER BY avg DESC

But, in my case I've to write 12 request to receive data for the 12 previous months, is there any trick to avoid writing:

//  example for the previous month
 AND v.date > CURDATE() -60
AND v.date < CURDATE () -30

I heard about INTERVAL, I went to the MySQL doc but i didn't manage to implement it.

Any example of using INTERVAL please?

Answer

Pekka picture Pekka · May 8, 2010

You need DATE_ADD/DATE_SUB:

AND v.date > (DATE_SUB(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 2 MONTH))
AND v.date < (DATE_SUB(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 1 MONTH))

should work.