Okay, the MySQL way would be something like the following? 
SELECT * FROM messages
    -> WHERE DATE_SUB(CURDATE(),INTERVAL 1 DAY) <= message_data;

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I generally do this in a three stage format, so if the above is true, I know there's a better way of doing this. 
my $data = qq(SELECT * FROM messages..);
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($data);
$sth->execute();

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Instead of caring what results came back, I only need to check to see that at least SOMETHING came back in the last day. How would I do that without having to do an sth->fetch?

Sorry, new to mysql.

In reply to Re^4: Detecting 1 day ago by Anonymous Monk
in thread Detecting 1 day ago by Anonymous Monk

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