I'm working on a project and I need to associate data, where the precision of times is given in seconds. But the times are not exact, I wanted to associate them with a time interval. How can I do this?
I tried the select values to put this time interval, and I couldn't.
You can use the Formula step, create a new column with the following function: NOW()
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I want a default on a column(smalldatetime data type) where the time value in each row is current time + 6hrs.
I tried using the Getdate() function but it doesnt update. Instead it just provides a stamp of when the rows were created. You can see that I tried the script in this post. I thought it had worked but when I checked the table the next day the time had never changed.I would like to set the Default value for a column to Current Time + 6hrs
Thanks in advance for any help offered.
Add the following field to your view:
DATEADD(hour, 6, GETDATE()) AS Minimum_Departure_Time
Since you want it to change when you look at it, there is no reason to put it in the table. Just put it in your view since the view is dynamically created everytime it is run.
Is it possible to create a data type in SQL similar to time that only displays the hour and minutes instead of the hour, minutes and seconds.
For example, If I inserted values into a table with the data type time I would get hh:mm:ss. How could I insert a value that only displays hh:mm?
Use TIME. More generally, the format in which you want something displayed should not affect your decision of the format in which it should be stored.
I'm trying to generate reports based on time ranges and I'd like to be able to segment things into different slices.
For example, I have some data that I'd like to group into overlapping ranges (a 24 hour window that I'd like to slide by hour increments over a period of 7 days).
I don't see any way to do this without generating the time ranges externally into a file that gets read by pig.
The answers you get for this are very dependent on how you need the dates formatted for the JOIN. I answered a similarish question here, and we can use the same principle from it here (expanding out the date range). Also, I'm pretty sure you can get away with just having a blank file as the second input. You will need to have at least something to do a FOREACH on, and the UDF can do all of the work.
I'll provide some example code (if needed) once I know how the dates need to be formatted.
So I'm pulling data from an external source which returns Date strings of the given format: "10/26/2013 9:46:46 AM"
When I sort the data it does not seem to be able to distinguish between AM and PM values so many noonish / 1 AM values are moved towards the bottom. Has anyone dealt with this before / have a solution to make it recognize the AM/PM aspect along with the day and time?
Thanks
It looks like it is sorting this as text. It may depend on how the data is getting pulled through.
If you select one of the cells and press F2 (to edit) then enter to go to the next cell, does this change your data?
In the code that is pulling the data through, you just need to amend it slightly.
Range("D5").value = string
It may change it slightly to maybe 24 hour time depending on your computer settings
I ended up just splitting the date and time using TimeValue() and DateValue() excel functions.I then wrote a macro to do a 3 key sort based on ticker, date, and then time.
I'm working with a spreadsheet with two columns, in which one of the columns is a time. I have loaded the data into a dictionary using the time as a key. I want to look up the data corresponding to a particular time (easy), and then get the next data point so that I can compare their values. The data is recorded such that one piece of data is generated every second over a period of around two hours.
My question is, does VBA in Excel have a function which can automatically add one second to a time? Or do I need to manually write one?
Update: In addition to the answers below, I have also found the "DateAdd" function useful - I suspect it depends on the version of Excel being used.
you should be able to use Time(hour, minute,second) function to add a second to the time.
so to add 1 second to a date with something like Date(2012,1,16) + Time(0,0,1) which should result in a value of "2012-01-16 12:00:01 AM"
you can use TimeValue("00:00:01") for adding in this example 1 second