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
>Iam not sure how to do it. >I try >select date_part('year', start_date) from sometable; >and that works but how do I
getit to only show me the years between >1990 and 2001 or some >othere set of dates. > >I would realy like to be able
tojust 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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