I was try to measure what is faster and what should be the best way to compare two dates, from datetime record in MySql db. There are several approaches how to grab a date from date time, but I was concentrate on two one is to use DATE function and second is to use LEFT function, something like this
DATE(created_on)
, and for LEFT function
LEFT(created_on,10)
it look s like those functions work same on my side. is there any better solution? or faster solution?
Your best bet is to always use the function that does what your intended purpose is. Since you want to get the date part of a date field, use the DATE function.
If your intended purpose is to get the left most 10 characters of a date field, use the LEFT function.
For all practical purposes, the results are probably the same. But the only constant in software development is change. For instance, what if MySql decided they wanted to change the way dates are stored in the next version, say as epoch (or number of ticks since a certain date). Your code that uses the LEFT function may fail or return undesirable results. Code that uses the DATE function would continue to work.
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