MySQL Birthday Column – Age of a Person

admin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:06:07 +0000

If you search for a solution to get the age of a person (in years) in MySQL, google gives you many obsolete (and complicated) answers, from MySQL 4.1.1 it is very easy to get this number:

TIMESTAMPDIFF(YEAR, myDateColumn, NOW())

Have fun.

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MySQL Birthday Column – Age of a Person