Slide 14.18: The BETWEEN operator

The BETWEEN Operator

The BETWEEN ... AND operator selects a range of data between two values. These values can be numbers, text, or dates.

 SELECT  column_name  FROM  table_name
   WHERE  column_name  BETWEEN  value1  AND  value2

LastName	FirstName	Address	City
Hansen	Ola	Timoteivn 10	Sandnes
Nordmann	Anna	Neset 18	Sandnes
Pettersen	Kari	Storgt 20	Stavanger
Svendson	Tove	Borgvn 23	Sandnes

To display the persons alphabetically between “Hansen” and “Pettersen,” use the following SQL:

 SQL> select  *  from  Persons
   2    where  LastName  between  'Hansen'  and  'Pettersen';

LastName	FirstName	Address	City
Hansen	Ola	Timoteivn 10	Sandnes
Nordmann	Anna	Neset 18	Sandnes
Pettersen	Kari	Storgt 20	Stavanger

To display the persons outside the range used in the previous example, use the NOT operator:

 SQL> select  *  from  Persons
   2    where  LastName  not between  'Hansen'  and  'Pettersen';

The following results are displayed:

LastName	FirstName	Address	City
Svendson	Tove	Borgvn 23	Sandnes

The following is an SQL test area from w3schools.com where the Customers table may be created by the following command:

   SQL> create table  Customers (
     2    CustomerID   varchar(16),
     3    CompanyName  varchar(32),
     4    ContactName  varchar(32),
     5    Address      varchar(64),
     6    City         varchar(32),
     7    PostalCode   varchar(16),
     8    Country      varchar(32) );

Note that the Customers table is for read only.

LastName	FirstName	Address	City
Hansen	Ola	Timoteivn 10	Sandnes
Pettersen	Kari	Storgt 20	Stavanger

The following is an SQL test area from w3schools.com where the Customers table may be created by the following command:

   SQL> create table  Customers (
     2    CustomerID   varchar(16),
     3    CompanyName  varchar(32),
     4    ContactName  varchar(32),
     5    Address      varchar(64),
     6    City         varchar(32),
     7    PostalCode   varchar(16),
     8    Country      varchar(32) );

Note that the Customers table is for read only.