SQL BETWEEN operator
BETWEEN operator is used to select a value within the range of data between two values of.
SQL BETWEEN operator
BETWEEN operator to select a value within the range of data between two values of. These values can be numeric, text or date.
SQL BETWEEN syntax
FROM table_name
WHERE column_name BETWEEN value1 AND value2;
The demo database
In this tutorial, we will use w3big sample database.
The following is a selected "Websites" table data:
+----+--------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+ | id | name | url | alexa | country | +----+--------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+ | 1 | Google | https://www.google.cm/ | 1 | USA | | 2 | 淘宝 | https://www.taobao.com/ | 13 | CN | | 3 | 本教程 | http://www.w3write.com/ | 4689 | CN | | 4 | 微博 | http://weibo.com/ | 20 | CN | | 5 | Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/ | 3 | USA | | 7 | stackoverflow | http://stackoverflow.com/ | 0 | IND | +----+---------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+
BETWEEN operator examples
The following SQL statement select alexa between 1 and 20, all of the sites:
Examples
WHERE alexa BETWEEN 1 AND 20;
Execution output:
NOT BETWEEN operator examples
To display the site is not within the scope of the examples above, use NOT BETWEEN:
Examples
WHERE alexa NOT BETWEEN 1 AND 20;
Execution output:
IN BETWEEN operator with examples
The following SQL statement select alexa between 1 and 20, but the country is not USA and IND for all Web sites:
Examples
WHERE (alexa BETWEEN 1 AND 20)
AND NOT country IN ( 'USA', 'IND');
Execution output:
BETWEEN operator with text values Examples
The following SQL statement to select all the site name with the letter between 'A' and 'H' between the beginning:
Examples
WHERE name BETWEEN 'A' AND 'H';
Execution output:
NOT BETWEEN operator with text values Examples
The following SQL statement is not between all the sites chosen name beginning with the letter between 'A' and 'H':
Examples
WHERE name NOT BETWEEN 'A' AND 'H';
Execution output:
Example Table
Here is the data "access_log" website access record table, wherein:
mysql> SELECT * FROM access_log; +-----+---------+-------+------------+ | aid | site_id | count | date | +-----+---------+-------+------------+ | 1 | 1 | 45 | 2016-05-10 | | 2 | 3 | 100 | 2016-05-13 | | 3 | 1 | 230 | 2016-05-14 | | 4 | 2 | 10 | 2016-05-14 | | 5 | 5 | 205 | 2016-05-14 | | 6 | 4 | 13 | 2016-05-15 | | 7 | 3 | 220 | 2016-05-15 | | 8 | 5 | 545 | 2016-05-16 | | 9 | 3 | 201 | 2016-05-17 | +-----+---------+-------+------------+ 9 rows in set (0.00 sec)
This tutorial uses the SQL file to access_log table: access_log.sql .
BETWEEN operators with date values Examples
The following SQL statement to select all access to records date between '2016-05-10' and '2016-05-14' between:
Examples
WHERE date BETWEEN '2016-05-10' AND '2016-05-14';
Execution output:
Note that in different databases, BETWEEN operator will produce different results! Therefore, check your database is how to handle BETWEEN operator! |