Syntax error How can we use ORDER BY clause while calculating the Date?

How can we use ORDER BY clause while calculating the Date?



It would be more convenient to find a record if we will use ORDER BY clause while calculating the date. To understand it, we have the data from table ‘Collegedetail’ as follows −

mysql> Select * from Collegedetail;
+------+---------+------------+
| ID   | Country | Estb       |
+------+---------+------------+
| 111  | INDIA   | 2010-05-01 |
| 130  | INDIA   | 1995-10-25 |
| 139  | USA     | 1994-09-25 |
| 1539 | UK      | 2001-07-23 |
| 1545 | Russia  | 2010-07-30 |
+------+---------+------------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Now, suppose if we want to calculate the number of years a college is old then it can be done as follows −

mysql> Select ID, estb, CURDATE(),((YEAR(CURDATE())-YEAR(estb))-(RIGHT(CURDATE(),5)<RIGHT(estb,5))) AS 'YEARS_OLD' from collegedetail;
+------+------------+------------+-----------+
| ID   | estb       | CURDATE()  | YEARS_OLD |
+------+------------+------------+-----------+
| 111  | 2010-05-01 | 2017-11-30 |         7 |
| 130  | 1995-10-25 | 2017-11-30 |        22 |
| 139  | 1994-09-25 | 2017-11-30 |        23 |
| 1539 | 2001-07-23 | 2017-11-30 |        16 |
| 1545 | 2010-07-30 | 2017-11-30 |         7 |
+------+------------+------------+-----------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Our search can be more convenient if we use ORDER BY clause as follows while calculating the number of years a college is old −

mysql> Select ID, estb, CURDATE(),((YEAR(CURDATE())-YEAR(estb))-(RIGHT(CURDATE(),5)<RIGHT(estb,5))) AS 'YEARS_OLD' from collegedetail ORDER BY YEARS_OLD;
+------+------------+------------+-----------+
| ID   | estb       | CURDATE()  | YEARS_OLD |
+------+------------+------------+-----------+
| 111  | 2010-05-01 | 2017-11-30 |         7 |
| 1545 | 2010-07-30 | 2017-11-30 |         7 |
| 1539 | 2001-07-23 | 2017-11-30 |        16 |
| 130  | 1995-10-25 | 2017-11-30 |        22 |
| 139  | 1994-09-25 | 2017-11-30 |        23 |
+------+------------+------------+-----------+
5 rows in set (0.01 sec)

The above result set shows that we can search the oldest college very easily by using ORER BY clause with ‘YEARS_OLD’. We can also use DESC keyword with ORDER BY clause which returns the oldest college in the top row as follows −

mysql> Select ID, estb, CURDATE(),((YEAR(CURDATE())-YEAR(estb))-(RIGHT(CURDATE(),5)<RIGHT(estb,5))) AS 'YEARS_OLD' from collegedetail ORDER BY YEARS_O
LD DESC;
+------+------------+------------+-----------+
| ID   | estb       | CURDATE()  | YEARS_OLD |
+------+------------+------------+-----------+
| 139  | 1994-09-25 | 2017-11-30 |        23 |
| 130  | 1995-10-25 | 2017-11-30 |        22 |
| 1539 | 2001-07-23 | 2017-11-30 |        16 |
| 111  | 2010-05-01 | 2017-11-30 |         7 |
| 1545 | 2010-07-30 | 2017-11-30 |         7 |
+------+------------+------------+-----------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)
Updated on: 2020-06-20T13:53:46+05:30

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