Filter data based on date in sql

Since you have not mentioned about any errors, if START_DATE and END_DATE are DATETIME data type, there is nothing wrong with your query. If you are not getting the correct records, Please check the data.

However your date format may trouble you in a different server. There are some good practices you could adhere to avoid such issues.

-Whenever date is used as a string, try to use it in ISO or ISO8601 format (ie ‘yyyymmdd’ or ‘yyyy-mm-ddThh:mi:ss.mmm’)

-Also avoid joining tables with WHERE Table1, Table2 which is old and obsolete. JOINs are much better performed, neat and tidy.

You can change your query as follows;

SELECT DISTINCT T1.column1, T1.column2, T2.START_DATE, T2.END_DATE
FROM Table1 T1 JOIN Table2 T2 ON T1.column1 = T2.column2
WHERE (T2.START_DATE >= '20130115 10:58:58' AND 
       T2.END_DATE <= '20130118 10:58:58') 
ORDER BY T2.START_DATE DESC