SQL > SQL Commands > BetweenWhereas the IN keyword help people to limit the selection criteria to one or more discrete values, the BETWEEN operator is used to select a range. The syntax for the BETWEEN operator is as follows:

SELECT "column_name"
FROM "table_name"
WHERE "column_name" BETWEEN 'value1' AND 'value2';
This will select all rows whose column has a value between 'value1' and 'value2'.
For example, we may wish to select view all sales information between January 6, 1999, and January 10, 1999, from the following table,
Table Store_Information
Store_NameSalesTxn_Date
Los Angeles1500Jan-05-1999
San Diego250Jan-07-1999
San Francisco300Jan-08-1999
Boston700Jan-08-1999
we key in,

SELECT *
FROM Store_Information
WHERE Txn_Date BETWEEN 'Jan-06-1999' AND 'Jan-10-1999';
Note that date may be stored in different formats in different databases. This tutorial simply choose one of the formats.
Result:

Store_NameSalesTxn_Date
San Diego250Jan-07-1999
San Francisco300Jan-08-1999
Boston700Jan-08-1999
BETWEEN is an inclusive operator, meaning that 'value1' and 'value2' are included in the result. If we wish to exclude 'value1' and 'value2' but include everything in between, we need to change the query to the following:

SELECT "column_name"
FROM "table_name"
WHERE ("column_name" > 'value1')
AND ("column_name" < 'value2');
We can also use the BETWEEN operator to exclude a range of values by adding NOT in front of BETWEEN. In the above example, if we want to show all rows where the Sales column is not between 280 and 1000, we will use the following SQL:

SELECT *
FROM Store_Information
WHERE Sales NOT BETWEEN 280 and 1000;
Result:

Store_NameSalesTxn_Date
Los Angeles1500Jan-05-1999
San Diego250Jan-07-1999