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Questions related to date or date-related functions, data-types, representations (how dates might be stored and displayed) and operations (such as subtracting dates, adding intervals to dates).

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MySQL Coalesce date missing results, why?

When I run either of SELECT id, the_time FROM the_table WHERE the_time BETWEEN '2019-12-19' AND '2019-12-19'; SELECT id, the_time FROM the_table WHERE COALESCE(the_time, DATE('9999-1-1')) BETWEEN … Why does the extra DATE() make a difference? I would have thought converting between date and string formats would be bijective and shouldn't affect the computation, but it seems it does. …
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