find maximum date from table

[bigfatwallet]

Good evening all.

 

I have a table that has a column called enddate and is of datatype date. (The dates will always be in the future.)

 

I would appreciate any help with the following:

 

1) The next date (in date terms - not table terms)

2) The maximum date

 

Can you please also advise how I get this to output to a browser.

 

Many thanks in advance

[sasa]

Good evening all.

 

I have a table that has a column called enddate and is of datatype date. (The dates will always be in the future.)

 

I would appreciate any help with the following:

 

1) The next date (in date terms - not table terms)

2) The maximum date

 

Can you please also advise how I get this to output to a browser.

 

Many thanks in advance

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1st

SELECT * FROM table_name ORDER BY enddate DESC LIMIT 1

2nd

SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE enddate>now() ORDER BY enddate ASC LIMIT 1

[bigfatwallet]

Thank you so much.

 

I can't believe I didnt think of that myself, I was trying min and max and all sorts of sutff! lol

 

Once again thanks.

 

[happs]

Just to clarify ..

 

I have a table with a date column in the format of YYYY-MM-DD for a database of events. Each event has a date and I want the site I am working on to get the NEXT event according to today's date. Would this code work for this also ?

 

Thanks in advance

 

- Alex

 

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Thank you so much.

 

I can't believe I didnt think of that myself, I was trying min and max and all sorts of sutff! lol

 

Once again thanks.