Comparing dates in search conditions

You can use operators other than equals to select a set of rows that satisfy the search condition. The inequality operators (< and >) can be used to compare numbers, dates, and even character strings.

List all employees born before March 13, 1964

In Interactive SQL, execute the following query:

SELECT Surname, BirthDate
   FROM Employees
   WHERE BirthDate < 'March 13, 1964'
   ORDER BY BirthDate DESC;

Surname	BirthDate
Ahmed	1963-12-12
Dill	1963-07-19
Rebeiro	1963-04-12
Garcia	1963-01-23
Pastor	1962-07-14
...	...

Notes

Automatic conversion to dates The SQL Anywhere database server knows that the BirthDate column contains dates, and automatically converts the string 'March 13, 1964' to a date.
Ways of specifying dates There are many ways of specifying dates. For example:
'March 13, 1964' '1964/03/13' '1964-03-13'
You can configure the interpretation of dates in queries by setting the date_order option database option. See date_order option [database].

Dates in the format yyyy/mm/dd or yyyy-mm-dd are always recognized unambiguously as dates, regardless of the date_order setting.
Other comparison operators SQL Anywhere supports several comparison operators. See Comparison operators.

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