help to retieve only the difference in minutes between two dates in DATETIME format

[Jag]

Hi all,
i am just lookin for a func or way about to retrieve the
difference in minutes between 2 dates which are of DATETIME data type
for induvidual records help in this regard is highly solicited
Thankz in Advance
Jag

[strawberry]

Post by Jag
Hi all,
i am just lookin for a func or way about to retrieve the
difference in minutes between 2 dates which are of DATETIME data type
for induvidual records help in this regard is highly solicited
Thankz in Advance
Jag

see UNIX_TIMESTAMP(date)

[Jonathan]

Post by Jag
Hi all,
i am just lookin for a func or way about to retrieve the
difference in minutes between 2 dates which are of DATETIME data type
for induvidual records help in this regard is highly solicited
Thankz in Advance
Jag

I would do something like this:

SELECT TIME_TO_SEC(TIMEDIFF('2006-11-23 23:45:00', '2006-11-30 23:46:31'));

which results in to 604709 seconds.

Jonathan

[Jag]

Thankz Jonathan your query was highly helpful,

Post by Jonathan

Post by Jag
Hi all,
i am just lookin for a func or way about to retrieve the
difference in minutes between 2 dates which are of DATETIME data type
for induvidual records help in this regard is highly solicited
Thankz in Advance
Jag

SELECT TIME_TO_SEC(TIMEDIFF('2006-11-23 23:45:00', '2006-11-30 23:46:31'));
which results in to 604709 seconds.
Jonathan

[Jag]

Thankz jonathan your query was highly helpful.
Thank u strawberry your sugesstion helped me in narrowing down the
search.

Post by Jonathan

Post by Jag
Hi all,
i am just lookin for a func or way about to retrieve the
difference in minutes between 2 dates which are of DATETIME data type
for induvidual records help in this regard is highly solicited
Thankz in Advance
Jag

SELECT TIME_TO_SEC(TIMEDIFF('2006-11-23 23:45:00', '2006-11-30 23:46:31'));
which results in to 604709 seconds.
Jonathan