Mysql - selecting year from a unix timestamp

Question

I am using this:

SELECT FROM_UNIXTIME(my_unix_timestamp_column, \'%Y\') AS year FROM table_name WHERE year = 2009;

but it gives me an error

Answer 1

I'm not quite sure whether this is due to YEAR being a reserved word in MySQL or because it wants you to do something along the lines of:

SELECT
  FROM_UNIXTIME(my_unix_timestamp_column, '%Y') AS year
FROM
  table_name
WHERE
  FROM_UNIXTIME(my_unix_timestamp_column, '%Y') = 2009;

Can't remember whether the last issue is only relevant to GROUPings :S