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> I have a table with a date field (called myDate for example) 
> formatted like xxxx-xx-xx.
> 
> I want to do a query searching for all dates with the month of 
> August, for example.
> 
> How would I do that?

SELECT datecol FROM mytable WHERE MONTHNAME(datecol)="August";

I suppose this would be slightly faster:

SELECT datecol FROM mytable WHERE MONTH(datecol) = 8;

<URL: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Date_and_time_functions.html >

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Roger


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