MySQL Return Today's Records Using DATE from DATETIME Field

Question

I have a table called "actions" with a DATETIME column called "occurred". I'm trying to return the records for today by doing the following

SELECT * FROM `actions` WHERE `occurred` = DATE(NOW());

But I get an empty result set. If I take the WHERE clause out, I can see all 295 rows in the table and there's at least 30 rows from today. Later I will be writing another query to return all records between today's date and X amount of days in the past but before I can get there I need to know why this query is returning an empty result set.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

SELECT * FROM actions WHERE DATE(ocurred) = CURDATE();

DATE(ocurred) ignores the time part.

Here's the SQL Fiddle to play with the data: http://www.sqlfiddle.com/#!2/81708/2

Answer 2

If there in no future date in occurred, you could just use below:

SELECT * FROM `actions` WHERE `occurred` > DATE_SUB(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 1 DAY);