I have a table similar to the following structure:
City start_date end_date
Paris 1995-01-01 00:00:00 1997-10-01 23:59:59
Paris 1997-10-02 00:00:00 0001-01-01 00:00:00
Paris 2013-01-25 00:00:00 0001-01-01 00:00:00
Paris 2015-04-25 00:00:00 0001-01-01 00:00:00
Berlin 2014-11-01 00:00:00 0001-01-01 00:00:00
Berlin 2014-06-01 00:00:00 0001-01-01 00:00:00
Berlin 2015-09-11 00:00:00 0001-01-01 00:00:00
Berlin 2015-10-01 00:00:00 0001-01-01 00:00:00
Milan 2001-01-01 00:00:00 0001-01-01 00:00:00
Milan 2005-10-02 00:00:00 2006-10-02 23:59:59
Milan 2006-10-03 00:00:00 2015-04-24 23:59:59
Milan 2015-04-25 00:00:00 0001-01-01 00:00:00
Data contains a historical view of start and end dates based on cities. The most recent entry for the city should be the one with the highest start date and end date “0001-01-01 00:00:00”, which indicates that there is no end date yet.
I need to clear this data and make sure that the historical records for each city have end dates one second before the next recording start date , only in cases when the end_date parameter is set to '0001-01-01 00:00:00'. Therefore in cases where end_date has an actual date, this will be ignored.In addition, the record with the most recent start_date for the city does not need to be changed end_date.
The summary table should look like this:
City start_date end_date
Paris 1995-01-01 00:00:00 1997-10-01 23:59:59
Paris 1997-10-02 00:00:00 2013-01-24 23:59:59
Paris 2013-01-25 00:00:00 2015-04-24 23:59:59
Paris 2015-04-25 00:00:00 0001-01-01 00:00:00
Berlin 2014-11-01 00:00:00 2014-05-31 23:59:59
Berlin 2014-06-01 00:00:00 2015-09-10 23:59:59
Berlin 2015-09-11 00:00:00 2015-09-30 23:59:59
Berlin 2015-10-01 00:00:00 0001-01-01 23:59:59
Milan 2001-01-01 00:00:00 2005-10-01 23:59:59
Milan 2005-10-02 00:00:00 2006-10-02 23:59:59
Milan 2006-10-03 00:00:00 2015-04-24 23:59:59
Milan 2015-04-25 00:00:00 0001-01-01 00:00:00
I tried the following script suggested by the user in this question .
update test join
(select t.*,
(select min(start_date)
from test t2
where t2.city = t.city and
t2.start_date > t.start_date
order by t2.start_date
limit 1
) as next_start_date
from test t
) tt
on tt.city = test.city and tt.start_date = test.start_date
set test.end_date = date_sub(tt.next_start_date, interval 1 second)
where test.end_date = '0001-01-01' and
next_start_date is not null;
Unfortunately, some end_dates are not intended (e.g. id 5 and 6), starting with entries in Berlin. However, others appear, as intended. This is shown below:

The following are the create and insert instructions for replication:
CREATE TABLE `test` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`city` varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
`start_date` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
`end_date` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=13 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
INSERT INTO test (city, start_date, end_date) VALUES ('Paris','1995-01-01 00:00:00','1997-10-01 23:59:59');
INSERT INTO test (city, start_date, end_date) VALUES ('Paris','1997-10-02 00:00:00','0001-01-01 00:00:00');
INSERT INTO test (city, start_date, end_date) VALUES ('Paris','2013-01-25 00:00:00','0001-01-01 00:00:00');
INSERT INTO test (city, start_date, end_date) VALUES ('Paris','2015-04-25 00:00:00','0001-01-01 00:00:00');
INSERT INTO test (city, start_date, end_date) VALUES ('Berlin','2014-11-01 00:00:00','0001-01-01 00:00:00');
INSERT INTO test (city, start_date, end_date) VALUES ('Berlin','2014-06-01 00:00:00','0001-01-01 00:00:00');
INSERT INTO test (city, start_date, end_date) VALUES ('Berlin','2015-09-11 00:00:00','0001-01-01 00:00:00');
INSERT INTO test (city, start_date, end_date) VALUES ('Berlin','2015-10-01 00:00:00','0001-01-01 00:00:00');
INSERT INTO test (city, start_date, end_date) VALUES ('Milan','2001-01-01 00:00:00','0001-01-01 00:00:00');
INSERT INTO test (city, start_date, end_date) VALUES ('Milan','2005-10-02 00:00:00','2006-10-02 23:59:59');
INSERT INTO test (city, start_date, end_date) VALUES ('Milan','2006-10-03 00:00:00','2015-04-24 23:59:59');
INSERT INTO test (city, start_date, end_date) VALUES ('Milan','2015-04-25 00:00:00','0001-01-01 00:00:00');