--- Mark Tessier <m_tessier@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My question is hopefully a simple one: If I have
> several rows, each containing a date field, and I
> want to select the row that has the date closest to
> today's date, what would be the syntax for carrying
> that out.
>
select * from tablename order by abs(current_date -
datefield) desc limit 1;
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