MySQL INTERVAL() function

Last update on April 04 2022 13:09:25 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

INTERVAL() function

MySQL INTERVAL() function returns the index of the argument that is more than the first argument.

Syntax:

INTERVAL(N,N1,N2,N3,...)

It returns 0 if 1st number is less than the 2nd number and 1 if 1st number is less than the 3rd number and so on or -1 if 1st number is NULL.

All arguments are treated as an integer.

MySQL Version: 5.6

Example: MySQL INTERVAL() function

The following MySQL statement the 1st number is 85, which is less than 175. All other numbers in the argument are smaller than 85. So, it returns the index of 175. Notice that indexing is started with the 2nd number and first position is zero.

Code:

SELECT INTERVAL(85, 1, 75, 17, 30,56, 175);

Sample Output:

mysql> SELECT INTERVAL(85, 1, 75, 17, 30,56, 175);
+-------------------------------------+
| INTERVAL(85, 1, 75, 17, 30,56, 175) |
+-------------------------------------+
|                                   5 | 
+-------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.02 sec)

PHP script:

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<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-12">
<h2>Select interval of 85, 1, 75, 17, 30,56, 175 using MySQL:</h2>
<table class='table table-bordered'>
<tr>
<th>INTERVAL(85, 1, 75, 17, 30,56, 175)</th>
</tr>
<?php
$hostname="your_hostname";
$username="your_username";
$password="your_password";
$db = "your_dbname";
$dbh = new PDO("MySQL:host=$hostname;dbname=$db", $username, $password);
foreach($dbh->query('SELECT INTERVAL(85, 1, 75, 17, 30,56, 175)') as $row) {
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>" . $row['INTERVAL(85, 1, 75, 17, 30,56, 175)'] . "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
?>
</tbody></table>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

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JSP script:

<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<%@ page import="java.sql.*" %>
<%@ page import="java.io.*" %>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>example-interval-function</title>
</head>
<body>
<%
try {
Class.forName("com.MySQL.jdbc.Driver").newInstance();
String Host = "jdbc:MySQL://localhost:3306/w3resour_bookinfo";
Connection connection = null;
Statement statement = null;
ResultSet rs = null;
connection = DriverManager.getConnection(Host, "root", "datasoft123");
statement = connection.createStatement();
String Data ="SELECT INTERVAL(85, 1, 75, 17, 30,56, 175)";
rs = statement.executeQuery(Data);
%>
<TABLE border="1">
<tr width="10" bgcolor="#9979">
<td>INTERVAL(85, 1, 75, 17, 30,56, 175)</td>
</tr>
<%
while (rs.next()) {
%>
<TR>
<TD><%=rs.getString("INTERVAL(85, 1, 75, 17, 30,56, 175)")%></TD>
</TR>
<%   }    %>
</table>
<%
rs.close();
statement.close();
connection.close();
} catch (Exception ex) {
out.println("Can’t connect to database.");
}
%>
</body>
</html>

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