andrecal wrote:
> I have a table with a TIMESTAMP entry, and I would like to find a
> query that will look at this table and only return results that shows
> the TIMESTAMP to be five minutes ago or less.
>
> Something along these lines:
> SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE entry_date BETWEEN NOW() AND NOW()-5
> minutes ago
>
> entry_date is a full timestamp
>
> any help appreciated,
> AN

Hmm, you say "any help appreciated", yet you have completely ignored the
superb help given by the developers when they wrote the section "Date and
Time Functions" in the MySQL user manual
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/...functions.html)!

I just went there to find the answer.

SELECT
*
FROM table_name
WHERE entry_date > date_sub( now( ) , INTERVAL 5 MINUTE )

or you may prefer:

SELECT
*
FROM table_name
WHERE entry_date > now( ) - INTERVAL 5 MINUTE