date calculation, design advice needed (continued)

2003-09-12 Thread Chambers John
arrgg, sorry i made a mistake and my precedent mail was sent before i finished wrting it :-{, the query is: INSERT INTO `TBL_COUNT_EXCLUDE` SELECT MAIN.id, SUM(IF(EX.excl_date BETWEEN MAIN.start_date AND MAIN.end_date, 1, 0)) AS excl_count FROM TBL_MAIN_DATE AS MAIN, TBL_EXCLUDE_DATE AS EX GROUP

date calculation, design advice needed

2003-09-12 Thread Chambers John
hi all, i've a question concerning the calculation of the number of days between 2 dates, and after searching the mailing list i'm still stuck, any help will be appreceiated :} actually i've a table with a lot of rows (varying between 5 to 15 millions), each row has a unique id and 2 date: start_