Re: searching for dates

Birgit Jansen wrote:
>I am trying to select from a table all rows that have a date befor
>1/1/2001 or after some date
>I am not sure how to do it.
>I try
>select date_part('year', start_date) from sometable;
>and that works but how do I get it to only show me the years between
>1990 and 2001 or some
>othere set of dates.
>
>I would realy like to be able to just have a function to tell me if a
>date in my datebase is
>befor or after a date?

SELECT *
FROM table
WHERE start_date BETWEEN '1990-01-01' AND '2001-12-31';

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