It seems like my min/max functions for my SQL code are reversed [closed] - sql

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I'm using Microsoft SQL Server and I"m having issues writing a command for MIN and MAX functions.
It seems simple. The data type of the column is date time and the requested information is to find oldest/newest employee.
Below is the query I wrote:
select max(date_hired)
from staff;
select min(date_hired)
from staff;
But it seems like they are working in reverse. Min is giving me oldest and max is giving me youngest.

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Presto: parse an entire column from a string to a date [closed]

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Current code I have is as follows:
select date_parse(column_name,'%Y-%m-%d %H:%i:%s')
This is the error I receive:
Error running query: line 1:19: Column "column_name" cannot be
resolved
I know that the format of the date I inserted is correct because I tested it with a value I have in the database and it returned the correct date value. It may be related to several records having no value in the column specified? Not exactly sure how I would account for that
I'm expecting the code to turn the entire column from a string into a date

How to get exact result from charindex? [closed]

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select *
from table_name
where charindex(dest_mail,'abc#mail.com') >0
In the above query dest_mail is a column, but there is another entry in the table, which is 'bc#mail.com'. When I try to execute the above query, I'm getting two results
1.abc#mail.com
2.bc#mail.com
How to get exact 'abc#mail.com'?
Have you considered =?
where dest_mail = 'abc#mail.com'
Also, charindex() is not very colloquial SQL for this purpose; = is a built-in standard operator (charindex() is not standard). And a bonus to = is that it allows the optimizer to take advantage of indexes and partitions.

SQL Server column select query behaving strangely [closed]

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When I do a select * over the table, the column Qty & QtyPending show a value of 6. However explicitly selecting the column names shows different values. Can anyone shed some light as to why this behavior is occurring?
This is a legacy system and database used is SQL Server 2000. The column data types are smallint.
So I have explicitly updated QtyPending to 6 using an Update query. This column now shows correct value.
Also added locstockid to the query, column Qty still shows different values.
Whatever I see in the image provided both the query have different LocStockId which means they can have different values
First :
LocStockId = 152319
Second :
LocStockId = 153219
I think you have mistyped.

ORA-00918 Column ambiguously defined [closed]

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SELECT INDIVIDUAL.INV_FNAME,
INDIVIDUAL.INV_LNAME,
INDIVIDUAL.INV_IC_NUM,
CUSTOMER.MEMBER_LEVEL,
CUSTOMER.MEMBER_POINT_BALANCE,
CUSTOMER.MEMBER_DISCOUNT_RATE,
PROGRAM_USER.USER_CONTACT_NUM,
PROGRAM_USER.USER_ADDRESS,
PROGRAM_USER.USER_CITY,
PROGRAM_USER.USER_STATE,
PROGRAM_USER.USER_ZIP_CODE,
PROGRAM_USER.USER_COUNTRY,
PROGRAM_USER.USER_EMAIL
FROM PROGRAM_USER,CUSTOMER,INDIVIDUAL
WHERE USER_ID = ‘san’;
In your query only USER_ID column in the where condition is not specified with a table name. I guess USER_ID is there in multiple table. Try the where condition with proper table name
SELECT INDIVIDUAL.INV_FNAME,
INDIVIDUAL.INV_LNAME,
INDIVIDUAL.INV_IC_NUM,
CUSTOMER.MEMBER_LEVEL,
CUSTOMER.MEMBER_POINT_BALANCE,
CUSTOMER.MEMBER_DISCOUNT_RATE,
PROGRAM_USER.USER_CONTACT_NUM,
PROGRAM_USER.USER_ADDRESS,
PROGRAM_USER.USER_CITY,
PROGRAM_USER.USER_STATE,
PROGRAM_USER.USER_ZIP_CODE,
PROGRAM_USER.USER_COUNTRY,
PROGRAM_USER.USER_EMAIL
FROM PROGRAM_USER,CUSTOMER,INDIVIDUAL
WHERE PROGRAM_USER.USER_ID = ‘san’;
Also like #HoneyBadger comment you need to specify the join between the tables

Give an Alias to a column I've casted as a date [closed]

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Basically I'm selecting all the rows from a table and stripping the time portion of the date using
CAST(CREATE_DATE AS DATE)
but my results give me the rows I need but the column is unnamed.
How do I give the column a name?
Like this:
Cast(create_date as date) as [Column Name Here]
You can omit the [] if you are not using spaces or reserved words in your column name (which is good practice anyway).