Sorry ,
You were right. I was mistaken the results

Between works just fine. It was me.

I'm Very sorry
Thank you all


On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 15:45, Mauricio Pellegrini wrote:
> Thanks,but I've also tried the date() function
> to compare only the date part of the column
> 
> like this
> 
>    select * where date(date_col) between date(startdate) and
> date(enddate)
> 
> and the result is the same.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 11:04, gerald_clark wrote:
> > Mauricio Pellegrini wrote:
> > 
> > >Hi,
> > >I'm using Between to fetch rows whose date column is between two dates. 
> > >
> > >The thing is, sometimes it brings all the rows including those with a
> > >date similar to the upper limit ( which is the correct behaviour,
> > >according to the manual) 
> > >
> > >and in other cases it brings al the rows excluding those equal to the
> > >upper limit (this shouldn't happen)
> > >
> > >this is how I use it
> > >
> > >   select * where date_col between startdate and enddate
> > >
> > >beeing startdate my lower limit and enddate the upper limit
> > >
> > >I'm using mysql 4.1.4 gamma but the same happened with 4.1.0 alpha
> > >
> > >the date columns are datetime type.
> > >
> > >First I would like to know why is this happening,
> > >and second how to avoid it.
> > >
> > This is happening because you are trying to find a 14 digit number 
> > between 2  8 digit numbers.
> > Your datetime is 14 digits. Dates are only 8.
> > 
> > >
> > >Thanks 
> > >Mauricio
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > 
> > 
> 


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