I’m working with subscription table currently and I’m creating a cron job that will take records based on some condition from the subscription table.
I want to select all subscription records that have either been renewed_at or created_at (these are column names) on certain date, seems easy so I do it like this, if the date is 2013-10-16 :
select * from subscription where
(subscription.renewed_at between '2013-10-16 00:00:00.000000'
and '2013-10-16 23:59:59.999999') OR
(subscription.created_at between 2013-10-16 00:00:00.000000'
and '2013-10-16 23:59:59.999999')
So here is what I want to be sure, and I’m not sure how to do it.
I want to prioritize renewed_at column over created_at column, in a sense that if somebody renewed their subscription at a certain date that I should select the record based on that date rather than on created_at date. In case however the renewed_at is not there I should select the record based on the created_at date.
And I should not select the record based on created_at if the renewed_at column is in there, and they’re always different in sense than they’re not ever the same date even if they’re both present. created_at is always present.
Is is possible to do it? Or am I thinking this the wrong way?