如何在特定时期内按时间间隔分组?

How can I group by a time interval inside a specific period?

给定以下结构和数据:

user   initial_date           final_date 
'JOHN' '2016-05-05 18:21:51', '2016-05-05 18:50:34'
'JOHN' '2016-05-05 18:51:44', '2016-05-05 19:10:54'

考虑到 2016-05-05 00:00:002016-05-05 18:59:59 之间的时间段,我需要找出约翰在这些寄存器中花费了多少分钟,如下所示:

user   initial_date           final_date             minutes_spent
'JOHN' '2016-05-05 18:20:00', '2016-05-05 18:50:00'  30
'JOHN' '2016-05-05 18:51:00', '2016-05-05 19:10:00'  9

第二行结果是9,因为我的搜索周期是18:59:59,所以必须忽略19:00:00之后的周期。

这对你有用吗:

select timestampdiff(MINUTE, greatest(initial_date,$start_of_range),
 least(final_date,$end_of_range)) from tbl where initial_date between 
 $start_of_range and $end_of_range or 
 final_date between $start_of_range and $end_of_range

?