Comparing date ranges

Question

In MySQL, If I have a list of date ranges (range-start and range-end). e.g.

10/06/1983 to 14/06/1983
15/07/1983 to 16/07/1983
18/07/1983 to 18/07/1983
         


        

Answer 1

In your expected results you say

06/06/1983 to 18/06/1983 = IN LIST

However, this period does not contain nor is contained by any of the periods in your table (not list!) of periods. It does, however, overlap the period 10/06/1983 to 14/06/1983.

You may find the Snodgrass book (http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/rts/tdbbook.pdf) useful: it pre-dates mysql but the concept of time hasn't changed ;-)