Converting time into an integer on SQL - sql

I am trying to calculate the average of ride_length (hh:mm:ss format) on Big Query.
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For example, I am aiming for a result that says 1 instead of 01:00:00.
I tried using the CAST function to convert it into an integer but it didn't work. I also tried following the steps of answers to questions similar to mine but they didn't work as well.

You can use Extract
function which will return the specified part of the time expressions. You can try the below queries.
To extract hour from the TIME expression you can consider the below query.
Query:
SELECT EXTRACT(HOUR FROM TIME "01:00:00") as hour;
Output:
To extract hour from TIMESTAMP expression below query can be considered.
Query:
select EXTRACT(hour from timestamp "2023-01-13 15:30:00" AT TIME ZONE "America/Los_Angeles") as hour
Output:
To extract hour from the TIME column you can consider the below sample query.
Query:
SELECT time,EXTRACT(HOUR FROM (time)) AS hour from `bigquery-public-data.austin_incidents.incidents_2008` limit 10
Output:

Related

Extract date, hour from the utc time

I would like to extract the date & hour from UTC time from the below table in bigquery. I have used timestamp for getting the date or time using the below code. I would like to apply the code for the entire column. How to apply timestamp for the entire column? Can you please assist with it?
SELECT EXTRACT(HOUR FROM TIMESTAMP "2020-05-03 16:49:47.583494")
My data is like this
I want result like this:
You can do it this way:
SELECT my_column AS original_value,
DATE_FORMAT(STR_TO_DATE(my_column, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%i:%s.%f UTC"), "%e/%m/%Y") AS date,
DATE_FORMAT(STR_TO_DATE(my_column, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%i:%s.%f UTC"), "%l%p") AS hour
FROM my_table;
I am assuming that the column is VARCHAR, that's why I am converting it to DATE.
Output:
Demo:
You can check the demo here.
Edit:
My initial thought was that OP wanted the query for MySQL (probably BigQuery is based on that). But it turns out that BigQuery is not based on MySQL. So you can use FORMAT_TIMESTAMP in BigQuery, this is how the query would look:
SELECT Occurrence AS original_value,
FORMAT_TIMESTAMP("%e/%m/%Y", Occurrence) AS date,
FORMAT_TIMESTAMP("%l%p", Occurrence) AS hour
FROM mytable

google bigquery select from a timestamp column between now and n days ago

I have a dataset in bigquery with a TIMESTAMP column "register_date" (sample value "2017-11-19 22:45:05.000 UTC" ).
I need to filter records based on x days or weeks before today criteria.
Example query
select all records which are 2 weeks old.
Currently I have this query (which I feel like a kind of hack) that works and returns the correct results
SELECT * FROM `my-pj.my_dataset.sample_table`
WHERE
(SELECT
CAST(DATE(register_date) AS DATE)) BETWEEN DATE_ADD(CURRENT_DATE(), INTERVAL -150 DAY)
AND CURRENT_DATE()
LIMIT 10
My question is do I have to use all that CASTing stuff on a TIMESTAMP column (which seems like over complicating the otherwise simple query)?
If I remove the CASting part, my query doesn't run and returns error.
Here is my simplified query
SELECT
*
FROM
`my-pj.my_dataset.sample_table`
WHERE
register_date BETWEEN DATE_ADD(CURRENT_DATE(), INTERVAL -150 DAY)
AND CURRENT_DATE()
LIMIT
10
that results into an error
Query Failed
Error: No matching signature for operator BETWEEN for argument types: TIMESTAMP, DATE, DATE. Supported signature: (ANY) BETWEEN (ANY) AND (ANY) at [6:17]
any insight is highly appreciated.
Use timestamp functions:
SELECT t.*
FROM `my-pj.my_dataset.sample_table` t
WHERE register_date BETWEEN TIMESTAMP_ADD(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP(), INTERVAL -150 DAY) AND CURRENT_TIMESTAMP()
LIMIT 10;
BigQuery has three data types for date/time values: date, datetime, and timestamp. These are not mutually interchangeable. The basic idea is:
Dates have no time component and no timezone.
Datetimes have a time component and no timezone.
Timestamp has both a time component and a timezone. In fact, it represents the value in UTC.
INTERVAL values are defined in gcp documentation
Conversion between the different values is not automatic. Your error message suggests that register_date is really stored as a Timestamp.
One caveat (from personal experience): the definition of day is based on UTC. This is not much of an issue if you are in London. It can be a bigger issue if you are in another time zone and you want the definition of "day" to be based on the local time zone. If that is an issue for you, ask another question.

Impala: set a constant date for timestamp

is there an alternative to the to_char() function in impala? I want to set a timestamp field where the date and minutes are fixed and only showing the hours, but can't seem to find an alternative.
This is my existing code in postgres which I need to convert to impala.
select to_char(starttime, '1900-01-01 HH24:00:00')::timestamp
Any help is appreciated!
In Impala, you can use
SELECT hours_add('1900-01-01', hour(now()));
to get the same result
function hour extracts the hour part from a timestamp
function hours_add adds hour to a timestamp

Cast integer with hour to time in PostgreSQL

I have a number passed as integer and would like to convert it to time, and use this number as hour.
I have found solutions for using a number as minutes, but I'm not familiar with PostgreSQL syntax. Not sure what to do here:
select CAST(to_char(czas, 'FM99909:99') AS TIME WITHOUT
TIME ZONE)::TIME from test
The result would be:
00:15:00
But I'm looking for a way to make it:
15:00:00
I have been working with MS SQL for quite a while, I'm surprised how much more complex PostgreSQL syntax is.
If your column test.czas to signifies hours just multiply with interval '1 hour':
SELECT (interval '01:00' * czas)::time FROM test;
Produces your desired result exactly, even with fractional digits.
'01:00' and '1 hour' are equivalent interval literals.
For czas > 24 you get the remainder (full days cut off) - like if you'd use czas%24.
Related:
Postgres data type cast
How do I add a column to a date in Postgres?

Substraction with decimal in ORACLE SQL

I need to substract 2 timestamps in the given format:
16/01/17 07:01:06,165000000
16/01/17 07:01:06,244000000
I want to express the result with 2 decimal values but somewhere in the CAST process I am loosing precision. My atempt by now goes this way:
select
id,
trunc((CAST(MAX(T.TIMESTAMP) AS DATE) - CAST(MIN(T.TIMESTAMP) AS DATE))*24*60*60,2) as result
from table T
group by id;
But I get id_1 '0' as a result for the two timestamps above even after I set the truncate decimals at 2.
Is there a way that I can obtain the 0.XX aa a result of the substraction?
It's because you are casting the timestamp to date.
Use to_timestamp to convert your string into timestamp.
Try this:
with your_table(tstamp) as (
select '16/01/17 07:01:06,165000000' from dual union all
select '16/01/17 07:01:06,244000000' from dual
),
your_table_casted as (
select to_timestamp(tstamp,'dd/mm/yy hh24:mi:ss,ff') tstamp from your_table
)
select trunc(sysdate + (max(tstamp) - min(tstamp)) * 86400 - sysdate, 2) diff
from your_table_casted;
The difference between two timestamps is INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND.
To convert it into seconds, use the above trick.
DATE—This datatype stores a date and a time, resolved to the second. It does not include the time zone. DATE is the oldest and most commonly used datatype for working with dates in Oracle applications.
TIMESTAMP—Time stamps are similar to dates, but with these two key distinctions: you can store and manipulate times resolved to the nearest billionth of a second (9 decimal places of precision), and you can associate a time zone with a time stamp, and Oracle Database will take that time zone into account when manipulating the time stamp.
The result of a substraction of two timestamps is an INTERVAL:
INTERVAL—Whereas DATE and TIMESTAMP record a specific point in time, INTERVAL records and computes a time duration. You can specify an interval in terms of years and months, or days and seconds.
You can find more information here