MySql date format with word

Question

I'm following documentation from here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_date-format

This one gave me result:

WHERE  (DATE_FORMAT( date_time, '%Y %m' ) BETWEEN '2014 03' AND '2014 06') 

but this one does not:

WHERE  (DATE_FORMAT( date_time, '%Y %M' ) BETWEEN '2014 March' AND '2014 June')

I want to use date like this: April 2014

What did I do wrong? Thanks in advance for any input.

Answer 1

You cannot compare strings. The comparisons you are looking at are alphabetical, so nothing matches because "March" > "June".

The comparison of two stings. M is greater than J in the alphabet therefore 2014 March is GREATER than 2014 June.

Don't ever try to use strings for comparison factors.