MySQL Query GROUP BY day / month / year

Question

Is it possible to make a simple query to count how many records I have in a determined period of time like a year, month, or day, having a TIMESTAMP field, like

Answer 1

You can do this simply Mysql DATE_FORMAT() function in GROUP BY. You may want to add an extra column for added clarity in some cases such as where records span several years then same month occurs in different years.Here so many option you can customize this. Please read this befor starting. Hope it should be very helpful for you. Here is sample query for your understanding

SELECT
    COUNT(id),
    DATE_FORMAT(record_date, '%Y-%m-%d') AS DAY,
    DATE_FORMAT(record_date, '%Y-%m') AS MONTH,
    DATE_FORMAT(record_date, '%Y') AS YEAR

FROM
    stats
WHERE
    YEAR = 2009
GROUP BY
    DATE_FORMAT(record_date, '%Y-%m-%d ');