swares:

If I understand you correctly, you have several cases you need to cover, like so:

Desired range:              +---------------+
Case 1,2:          +-1-+                        +---2--+
Case 3,4:             +----3-----+      +--------4-----------+
Case 5:                        +---5----+
Case 6:            +------------------6----------------+

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and you want to return records for cases 3, 4, 5, and 6, but you're not getting case 6. I normally cover these cases by:

  • Look for a cases start time and/or stop time inside the desired range.
  • Look for the desired ranges start and/or end time inside the cases range.

    • That should catch all the cases for you. The SQL code I normally use resembles:

    select * from table 
where (start_time    between desired_start and desired_stop)
or    (end_time      between desired_start and desired_end)
or    (desired_start between start_time    and end_time)
or    (desired_stop  between start_time    and end_time)

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    ...roboticus

    In reply to Re: Trying to select all records that match a datetime range. by roboticus
    in thread Trying to select all records that match a datetime range. by swares

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