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Subject:    Re: Selecting 3 days worth of data with an offset of 5 days from
From:       Bob Hall <rjhalljr () starpower ! net>
Date:       2001-03-31 15:27:23
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    WHERE datestamp BETWEEN Date_sub(CURRENT_DATE, INTERVAL 5 DAY)
       AND Date_sub(CURRENT_DATE, INTERVAL 7 DAY)

>Hello all
>
>I am looking for a way to return 3 days worth of data with an offset 
>of five days (in the past) from today.
>
>For example, say we had the following dates and today is 2001-03-31. 
>First we do:
>
>select name, datestamp from visitor_data order by datestamp desc;
>
>and are returned with this list
>
>name	datestamp
>
>jon	2001-03-31
>peter	2001-03-29
>sam	2001-03-26
>joe	2001-03-25
>pete	2001-03-25
>zed	2001-03-25
>chris	2001-03-24
>paul	2001-03-22
>simon	2001-03-22
>
>Now, I am looking for a way to return just the following data:
>
>sam	2001-03-26
>joe	2001-03-25
>pete	2001-03-25
>zed	2001-03-25
>chris	2001-03-24
>
>How can this be done?
>
>I would be really very grateful if someone could point me in the 
>right direction or offer a link to a resource with some example of 
>what I would like to do. I already looked in the manual and the 
>example:
>
>SELECT something FROM table WHERE TO_DAYS(NOW()) - TO_DAYS(date_field) <= 30;
>
>is interesting, but is not really what I want to do.
>
>If anyone can help me, I thank you whole-heartedly in advance.
>
>S.
>
>
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