Syntax error MySQL query to order by current day and month?

MySQL query to order by current day and month?

For this, you can use the ORDER BY CASE statement. Let us first create a table −

mysql> create table DemoTable
(
   DueDate date
);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.56 sec)

Note − Let’s say the current date is 2019-07-22.

Insert some records in the table using insert command −

mysql> insert into DemoTable values('2019-03-10');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.17 sec)
mysql> insert into DemoTable values('2019-08-25');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.15 sec)
mysql> insert into DemoTable values('2019-06-01');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.10 sec)
mysql> insert into DemoTable values('2019-12-31');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.17 sec)

Display all records from the table using select statement −

mysql> select *from DemoTable;

This will produce the following output −

+------------+
| DueDate    |
+------------+
| 2019-03-10 |
| 2019-08-25 |
| 2019-06-01 |
| 2019-12-31 |
+------------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Following is the query to order by day and month −

mysql> select *from DemoTable order by case when DueDate > curdate() then 0 else 1 end, DueDate;

This will produce the following output −

+------------+
| DueDate    |
+------------+
| 2019-08-25 |
| 2019-12-31 |
| 2019-03-10 |
| 2019-06-01 |
+------------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
Updated on: 2019-09-26T08:10:26+05:30

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