title: Return all mySQL Records for Current Year
body: <p>In mySQL, I would like to return a count of the records that have a <code>start_date</code> within the current year (as in the year 2012, NOT within the last one year time period) and (as a separate query) a count of the records from the previous year (2011 in the case as it is now).</p>
  
  <p>My start dates are stored thus: <code>2012-12-02</code>. I am using PHP.</p>
  
  <p>Help on how I would form these queries would be hugely appreciated.</p>