"er.tejaspate...@gmail.com" <er.tejaspate...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If I have to find upcoming birthdays in current week and the
> current week fall into different months - how would you handle
> that?
If you don't need to cross from December into January, I find the
easiest is:
SELECT * FROM person
WHERE (EXTRACT(MONTH FROM dob), EXTRACT(DAY FROM dob))
BETWEEN (6, 28) AND (7, 4);
That is logicically the same as:
SELECT * FROM person
WHERE (EXTRACT(MONTH FROM dob) >= 6
AND (EXTRACT(MONTH FROM dob) > 6
OR (EXTRACT(DAY FROM dob) >= 28)))
AND (EXTRACT(MONTH FROM dob) <= 7
AND (EXTRACT(MONTH FROM dob) < 7
OR (EXTRACT(DAY FROM dob) <= 4)));
That's the generalized case; with the months adjacent, this simpler
form is also equivalent:
SELECT * FROM person
WHERE (EXTRACT(MONTH FROM dob) = 6
AND EXTRACT(DAY FROM dob) >= 28)
OR (EXTRACT(MONTH FROM dob) = 7
AND EXTRACT(DAY FROM dob) <= 4);
The first query I showed is faster than either of the alternatives,
especially if there is an index on dob.
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