mySQL SELECT upcoming birthdays

Question

I\'m trying to write a query to select users of a database whose birthdays are in the next 7 days.

I\'ve done a lot of research but I can\'t come up with a working s

Answer 1

So another approach you can take is to do a little more work before hitting the database layer. For example, I recently did this in a Laravel (PHP) and Postgres project. I basically built up an array of dates (ie. the next 7 days), and did a where in query to find users with birthdays on those dates.

User::whereNotNull('birth_date')
    ->where('birth_date', '<=', $endDate)
    ->whereIn(DB::raw("to_char(birth_date, 'MMDD')"), Carbon::range($startDate, $endDate)->map(function ($date) {
        return $date->format('md');
    }))->get();