It's not all that elegant, but how about this:
Mysql> SELECT date_format(date_add('2002-10-01', interval -1 day), "%d");
Basically, take the first day of the month, subtract one and figure out what
the day number is.
-- Jason
On 11/18/02 9:02 AM, "Andrew Braithwaite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Can anyone help? I want to know if there is an easy way to return the
> number of days in a month from mysql.
>
> Ideally there would be a function that did the following...
>
> mysql> SELECT DAYSINMONTH('2002-10');
> +-----------------------+
> | DAYINMONTH('2002-10') |
> +-----------------------+
> | 31 |
> +-----------------------+
> 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
>
> But there isn't....
>
> Anyone got any ideas before I go off and do it in perl?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
> Sql,query
>
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