SQL BETWEEN

The SQL BETWEEN & AND keywords define a range of data between 2 values.

The SQL BETWEEN syntax looks like this:


SELECT Column1, Column2, Column3, …
FROM Table1
WHERE Column1 BETWEEN Value1 AND Value2

The 2 values defining the range for SQL BETWEEN clause can be dates, numbers or just text.

In contrast with the SQL IN keyword, which allows you to specify discrete values in your SQL WHERE criteria, the SQL BETWEEN gives you the ability to specify a range in your search criteria.

We are going to use the familiar Customers table to show how SQL BETWEEN works:

FirstName LastName Email DOB Phone
John Smith John.Smith@yahoo.com 2/4/1968 626 222-2222
Steven Goldfish goldfish@fishhere.net 4/4/1974 323 455-4545
Paula Brown pb@herowndomain.org 5/24/1978 416 323-3232
James Smith jim@supergig.co.uk 20/10/1980 416 323-8888

Consider the following SQL BETWEEN statement:


SELECT *
FROM Customers
WHERE DOB BETWEEN '1/1/1975' AND '1/1/2004'

The SQL BETWEEN statement above will select all Customers having DOB column between '1/1/1975' and '1/1/2004' dates. Here is the result of this SQL expression:

FirstName LastName Email DOB Phone
Paula Brown pb@herowndomain.org 5/24/1978 416 323-3232
James Smith jim@supergig.co.uk 20/10/1980 416 323-8888