MySQL - Between Clause

You can use BETWEEN clause to replace a combination of "greater than equal AND less than equal" conditions.

To understand BETWEEN clause, consider an employee_tbl table, which is having following records −

mysql> SELECT * FROM employee_tbl;
+------+------+------------+--------------------+
|  id  | name | work_date  | daily_typing_pages |
+------+------+------------+--------------------+
|   1  | John | 2007-01-24 |        250         |
|   2  | Ram  | 2007-05-27 |        220         |
|   3  | Jack | 2007-05-06 |        170         |
|   3  | Jack | 2007-04-06 |        100         |
|   4  | Jill | 2007-04-06 |        220         |
|   5  | Zara | 2007-06-06 |        300         |
|   5  | Zara | 2007-02-06 |        350         |
+------+------+------------+--------------------+
7 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Now, suppose based on the above table you want to fetch records with conditions daily_typing_pages more than 170 and equal and less than 300 and equal. This can be done using >= and <= conditions as follows −

mysql>SELECT * FROM employee_tbl 
   ->WHERE daily_typing_pages >= 170 AND
   ->daily_typing_pages <= 300;
+------+------+------------+--------------------+
|  id  | name | work_date  | daily_typing_pages |
+------+------+------------+--------------------+
|   1  | John | 2007-01-24 |        250         |
|   2  | Ram  | 2007-05-27 |        220         |
|   3  | Jack | 2007-05-06 |        170         |
|   4  | Jill | 2007-04-06 |        220         |
|   5  | Zara | 2007-06-06 |        300         |
+------+------+------------+--------------------+
5 rows in set (0.03 sec)

Same can be achieved using BETWEEN clause as follows −

mysql> SELECT * FROM employee_tbl 
   -> WHERE daily_typing_pages BETWEEN 170 AND 300; 
+------+------+------------+--------------------+
|  id  | name | work_date  | daily_typing_pages |
+------+------+------------+--------------------+
|   1  | John | 2007-01-24 |        250         |
|   2  | Ram  | 2007-05-27 |        220         |
|   3  | Jack | 2007-05-06 |        170         |
|   4  | Jill | 2007-04-06 |        220         |
|   5  | Zara | 2007-06-06 |        300         |
+------+------+------------+--------------------+
5 rows in set (0.03 sec)