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

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.w3big.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

SELECT * FROM Websites
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

SELECT * FROM Websites
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

SELECT * FROM Websites
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

SELECT * FROM Websites
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

SELECT * FROM Websites
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

SELECT * FROM access_log
WHERE date BETWEEN '2016-05-10' AND '2016-05-14';

Execution output:

Note that in different databases, BETWEEN operator will produce different results! In some databases, BETWEEN select between two values ​​but does not include two field test values. In some databases, BETWEEN choose between and including two field test values ​​between the two values. In some databases, BETWEEN select between two values ​​including the first test value and excluding the last test value field. Therefore, check your database is how to handle BETWEEN operator!