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I'm having trouble with a Datetime column in a table while adding declaration on a stored procedure.
I want to set #EventTime as a day of the week without modifying the column..
More like a catch.
For example:
declare #EventTime datetime
set #EventTime = (select EventTime
from _LogClients
where ClientID = #ClientID)
if (#EventTime like '%2-2%) -- As a day of a week not as a numerical date.
- - Datetime preview:2019-01-22 17:47:00
Any help regarding that matter?
Note:
The EventTime is used on a Stored Procedure which runs on a certain event that occur.. However, the database is a Game one, so the logger is based on the server files, I need to know if I'm able to make the EventTime declaration able to read the datetime from the column as weekday in order to execute a certain query for that day (Not SQL Agent based though.. that's a different story).
I'm not sure from your question if you are trying to get the numerical representation of the actual day of the week (like Sunday would be "1", Monday as "2", etc.. ) or if you just need the day of the week as a word from a date.
Here is your code modified to use the word for the day of the week (please note you could have used the DateName within the select statement but then you'd need to change the type of #EventTime to a nVarchar() or nchar) :
declare #EventTime datetime
set #EventTime = (select EventTime
from _LogClients
where ClientID = #ClientID)
if (DATENAME(dw,#EventTime) like '%Tuesday%)
If you wanted the numerical equivalent use:
if (DATEPART(dw,#EventTime) = '1' -- Testing for Sunday day name
How would I be able to extract the time part of a DateTime field in SQL? For my project I have to return data that has a timestamp of 5pm of a DateTime field no matter what the date is
This will return the time-Only
For SQL Server:
SELECT convert(varchar(8), getdate(), 108)
Explanation:
getDate() is giving current date and time.
108 is formatting/giving us the required portion i.e time in this case.
varchar(8) gives us the number of characters from that portion.
Like:
If you wrote varchar(7) there, it will give you 00:00:0
If you wrote varchar(6) there, it will give you 00:00:
If you wrote varchar(15) there, it will still give you 00:00:00 because it is giving output of just time portion.
SQLFiddle Demo
For MySQL:
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(NOW(), '%H:%i:%s')
SQLFiddle Demo
In SQL Server if you need only the hh:mi, you can use:
DECLARE #datetime datetime
SELECT #datetime = GETDATE()
SELECT RIGHT('0'+CAST(DATEPART(hour, #datetime) as varchar(2)),2) + ':' +
RIGHT('0'+CAST(DATEPART(minute, #datetime)as varchar(2)),2)
If you want only the hour of your datetime, then you can use DATEPART() - SQL Server:
declare #dt datetime
set #dt = '2012-09-10 08:25:53'
select datepart(hour, #dt) -- returns 8
In SQL Server 2008+ you can CAST() as time:
declare #dt datetime
set #dt = '2012-09-10 08:25:53'
select CAST(#dt as time) -- returns 08:25:53
I know this is an old question, but since the other answers all
return strings (rather than datetimes),
rely on the internal representation of dates (conversion to float, int, and back) or
require SQL Server 2008 or beyond,
I thought I'd add a "pure" option which only requires datetime operations and works with SQL Server 2005+:
SELECT DATEADD(dd, -DATEDIFF(dd, 0, mydatetime), mydatetime)
This calculates the difference (in whole days) between date zero (1900-01-01) and the given date and then subtracts that number of days from the given date, thereby setting its date component to zero.
Try this in SQL Server 2008:
select *
from some_table t
where convert(time,t.some_datetime_column) = '5pm'
If you want take a random datetime value and adjust it so the time component is 5pm, then in SQL Server 2008 there are a number of ways. First you need start-of-day (e.g., 2011-09-30 00:00:00.000).
One technique that works for all versions of Microsoft SQL Server as well as all versions of Sybase is to use convert/3 to convert the datetime value to a varchar that lacks a time component and then back into a datetime value:
select convert(datetime,convert(varchar,current_timestamp,112),112)
The above gives you start-of-day for the current day.
In SQL Server 2008, though, you can say something like this:
select start_of_day = t.some_datetime_column
- convert(time, t.some_datetime_column ) ,
from some_table t
which is likely faster.
Once you have start-of-day, getting to 5pm is easy. Just add 17 hours to your start-of-day value:
select five_pm = dateadd(hour,17, t.some_datetime_column
- convert(time,t.some_datetime_column)
)
from some_table t
Note that from MS SQL 2012 onwards you can use FORMAT(value,'format')
e.g. WHERE FORMAT(YourDatetime,'HH:mm') = '17:00'
"For my project, I have to return data that has a timestamp of 5pm of a DateTime field, No matter what the date is."
So I think what you meant was that you needed the date, not the time. You can do something like this to get a date with 5:00 as the time:
SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), GetDate(), 110) + ' 05:00:00'
This should strip away the date part:
select convert(datetime,convert(float, getdate()) - convert(int,getdate())), getdate()
and return a datetime with a default date of 1900-01-01.
you can use CONVERT(TIME,GETDATE()) in this case:
INSERT INTO infoTbl
(itDate, itTime)
VALUES (GETDATE(),CONVERT(TIME,GETDATE()))
or if you want print it or return that time use like this:
DECLARE #dt TIME
SET #dt = CONVERT(TIME,GETDATE())
PRINT #dt
select cast(getdate() as time(0))
returns for example :- 15:19:43
replace getdate() with the date time you want to extract just time from!
SELECT DISTINCT
CONVERT(VARCHAR(17), A.SOURCE_DEPARTURE_TIME, 108)
FROM
CONSOLIDATED_LIST AS A
WHERE
CONVERT(VARCHAR(17), A.SOURCE_DEPARTURE_TIME, 108) BETWEEN '15:00:00' AND '15:45:00'
declare #datetime as datetime
set #datetime = getdate()
select cast(cast(#datetime as time) as varchar(8))
For year:
SELECT DATEPART(YEAR, '2021-03-21' );
For hour:
SELECT DATEPART(HOUR, '2021-03-21 08:50:30' );
I need to write a store procedure that will return a next friday date on a given date? for example - if the date is 05/12/2011, then it should return next friday date as 05/13/2011. If you pass, 05/16/2011, then it should return the date is 5/20/2011 (Friday). If you pass friday as the date, then it should return the same date.
I'd make this a scalar UDF as it is easier to consume the output.
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.GetNextFriday(
#D DATETIME
)
RETURNS DATETIME
WITH SCHEMABINDING, RETURNS NULL ON NULL INPUT
AS
BEGIN
RETURN DATEADD(DAY,(13 - (##DATEFIRST + DATEPART(WEEKDAY,#D)))%7,#D)
END
This is for SQL Server 2008. To use in 2005, just change the date fields to your preference for datetime to date conversions. It also assumes you are not changing the default week begin value.
DECLARE #PassedDate date = '5/21/2011';
SELECT DATEADD(DAY,(CASE DATEPART(DW,#PassedDate) WHEN 7 THEN 6 ELSE 6 - DATEPART(DW,#PassedDate) END),#PassedDate);
Similar to the top answer, but without using ##DATEFIRST in the solution:
DECLARE #Today DATETIME = GETDATE(); -- any date
DECLARE #WeekdayIndex SMALLINT = DATEPART(WEEKDAY, #Today);
DECLARE #DaysUntilFriday SMALLINT = (13 - #WeekdayIndex) % 7;
DECLARE #UpcomingFridayDate DATETIME = DATEADD(DAY, #DaysUntilFriday, #Today);
SELECT #UpcomingFridayDate ;
Great solutions here, but I also recommend looking at time tables: you can generate them easily in Analysis server, and they can be indexed to be very fast, giving you lots of easy ways to get next week days (among other things).
You can find out more about them here
In our case, the same solution would be
Select MIN(PK_Date) from Time Where PK_Date > #SomeDate AND Day_Of_Week= 6
And of course when you're doing this for a large recordset, you can also do joins for maximum speed & efficiency.
I want to limit a report to return records from Date A through Date B. This is what I have been doing:
declare #startDate varchar(20)
declare #endDate varchar(20)
set #startDate = '01/01/2008'
set #endDate = '04/01/2008'
-- test what are the start and end dates
select min(date),max(date) from view_Inspections
where date between #startDate and #endDate
... which I was told returned records from 12 am Jan 1st through 11:59 pm March 31st (that midnight is the default when no time is indicated). But I noticed a discrepancy, which is if a record has a time of 00:00:00 that it will be part of this set.
Is there a more exact way of doing this so it will return exactly the date range I want?*
I tried using time:
declare #startDate varchar(20)
declare #endDate varchar(20)
set #startDate = '01/01/2008 00:00:00'
set #endDate = '04/01/2008 11:59:59'
-- test what are the start and end dates
select min(date),max(date) from view_Inspections
where date between #startDate and #endDate
... but I noticed something wonky: SQL Server will ROUND the hundreth-second up by half. So I get that April 1st record (ha! April Fool's record! grr) if I use any time later than 11:59:29. Why is that?
(I feel sure there is. I'm new at this. Thanks for your help!)
There's always the easy option:
declare #startDate varchar(20)
declare #endDate varchar(20)
set #startDate = '01/01/2008'
set #endDate = '04/01/2008'
-- test what are the start and end dates
select min(date),max(date) from view_Inspections
where date >= #startDate
and date < #endDate
I suspect that the date column in view_Inspections is a SmallDateTime data type. This data type has 1 minute accuracy, which explains your unexpected results (rounding the seconds to the nearest minute).
The method Roland Shaw suggests is the best way to modify your query to accommodate your requirements.
The BETWEEN operator is inclusive, which is why you're seeing the results that you are in your first query. The rounding that you're seeing in your second query is going to be dependent on what exact datetime data type you are using in your table. (BTW, I think you're confusing seconds with hundredths of seconds). It looks like you're probably using a smalldatetime in your table, in which case the time is rounded to the nearest minute.
If your table is using datetime, try explicitly converting your #startDate and #endDate to DATETIME values (CAST(#endDate AS DATETIME)).
A quick note... even for DATETIME values, SQL Server is only accurate to the 3/100ths of a second, so 11:59:59.999 will get rounded up to 12:00:00.000.
You basically have three choices:
1) BETWEEN CAST('01/01/2008 00:00:00.000' AS DATETIME) AND CAST('03/31/2008 12:59:59.997' AS DATETIME)
2) YEAR(my_date) = 2008 AND MONTH(my_date) BETWEEN 1 AND 3
3) my_date >= CAST('01/01/2008 00:00:00.000' AS DATETIME) AND my_date < CAST('04/01/2008 00:00:00.000' AS DATETIME)
The first method isn't very intuitive and is error-prone in my opinion. The second method kills performance since indexes can't be used and it becomes much more complex if you can have searches that span years or begin/end in the middle of months. The third method, which Rowland suggested, is the best I think.
Simply try removing the time from the date field like so:
declare #startDate varchar(20)
declare #endDate varchar(20)
set #startDate = '01/01/2008'
set #endDate = '04/01/2008'
SELECT min(date),max(date) FROM view_Inspections
WHERE CAST(FLOOR(CAST(date AS FLOAT)) AS DATETIME) BETWEEN CAST(#startDate AS DATETIME) And CAST(#startDate AS DATETIME))
This will return everything from 01/01/2008 00:00:00 to 04/01/2008 11:59:59.999.
If you don't want 04/01 included, change your end date to 03/31/2008.
Your best solution is just create a BIGINT(10) field that called "julian", and store it in YYYYMMDD.
Then do the query
where julian >= '20120103' AND julian <= '20120203'
I am writing a query in which I have to get the data for only the last year. What is the best way to do this?
SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE date > '8/27/2007 12:00:00 AM'
The following adds -1 years to the current date:
SELECT ... From ... WHERE date > DATEADD(year,-1,GETDATE())
I found this page while looking for a solution that would help me select results from a prior calendar year. Most of the results shown above seems return items from the past 365 days, which didn't work for me.
At the same time, it did give me enough direction to solve my needs in the following code - which I'm posting here for any others who have the same need as mine and who may come across this page in searching for a solution.
SELECT .... FROM .... WHERE year(*your date column*) = year(DATEADD(year,-1,getdate()))
Thanks to those above whose solutions helped me arrive at what I needed.
Well, I think something is missing here. User wants to get data from the last year and not from the last 365 days. There is a huge diference. In my opinion, data from the last year is every data from 2007 (if I am in 2008 now). So the right answer would be:
SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE YEAR(DATE) = YEAR(GETDATE()) - 1
Then if you want to restrict this query, you can add some other filter, but always searching in the last year.
SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE YEAR(DATE) = YEAR(GETDATE()) - 1 AND DATE > '05/05/2007'
The most readable, IMO:
SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE Date >
DATEADD(yy, -1, CONVERT(datetime, CONVERT(varchar, GETDATE(), 101)))
Which:
Gets now's datetime GETDATE() = #8/27/2008 10:23am#
Converts to a string with format 101 CONVERT(varchar, #8/27/2008 10:23am#, 101) = '8/27/2007'
Converts to a datetime CONVERT(datetime, '8/27/2007') = #8/27/2008 12:00AM#
Subtracts 1 year DATEADD(yy, -1, #8/27/2008 12:00AM#) = #8/27/2007 12:00AM#
There's variants with DATEDIFF and DATEADD to get you midnight of today, but they tend to be rather obtuse (though slightly better on performance - not that you'd notice compared to the reads required to fetch the data).
Look up dateadd in BOL
dateadd(yy,-1,getdate())
GETDATE() returns current date and time.
If last year starts in midnight of current day last year (like in original example) you should use something like:
DECLARE #start datetime
SET #start = dbo.getdatewithouttime(DATEADD(year, -1, GETDATE())) -- cut time (hours, minutes, ect.) -- getdatewithouttime() function doesn't exist in MS SQL -- you have to write one
SELECT column1, column2, ..., columnN FROM table WHERE date >= #start
I, like #D.E. White, came here for similar but different reasons than the original question. The original question asks for the last 365 days. #samjudson's answer provides that. #D.E. White's answer returns results for the prior calendar year.
My query is a bit different in that it works for the prior year up to and including the current date:
SELECT .... FROM .... WHERE year(date) > year(DATEADD(year, -2, GETDATE()))
For example, on Feb 17, 2017 this query returns results from 1/1/2016 to 2/17/2017
For some reason none of the results above worked for me.
This selects the last 365 days.
SELECT ... From ... WHERE date BETWEEN CURDATE() - INTERVAL 1 YEAR AND CURDATE()
The other suggestions are good if you have "SQL only".
However I suggest, that - if possible - you calculate the date in your program and insert it as string in the SQL query.
At least for for big tables (i.e. several million rows, maybe combined with joins) that will give you a considerable speed improvement as the optimizer can work with that much better.
argument for DATEADD function :
DATEADD (*datepart* , *number* , *date* )
datepart can be: yy, qq, mm, dy, dd, wk, dw, hh, mi, ss, ms
number is an expression that can be resolved to an int that is added to a datepart of date
date is an expression that can be resolved to a time, date, smalldatetime, datetime, datetime2, or datetimeoffset value.
declare #iMonth int
declare #sYear varchar(4)
declare #sMonth varchar(2)
set #iMonth = 0
while #iMonth > -12
begin
set #sYear = year(DATEADD(month,#iMonth,GETDATE()))
set #sMonth = right('0'+cast(month(DATEADD(month,#iMonth,GETDATE())) as varchar(2)),2)
select #sYear + #sMonth
set #iMonth = #iMonth - 1
end
I had a similar problem but the previous coder only provided the date in mm-yyyy format. My solution is simple but might prove helpful to some (I also wanted to be sure beginning and ending spaces were eliminated):
SELECT ... FROM ....WHERE
CONVERT(datetime,REPLACE(LEFT(LTRIM([MoYr]),2),'-
','')+'/01/'+RIGHT(RTRIM([MoYr]),4)) >= DATEADD(year,-1,GETDATE())
Here's my version.
YEAR(NOW())- 1
Example:
YEAR(c.contractDate) = YEAR(NOW())- 1
For me this worked well
SELECT DATE_ADD(Now(),INTERVAL -2 YEAR);
If you are trying to calculate "rolling" days, you can simplify it by using:
Select ... FROM ... WHERE [DATE] > (GETDATE()-[# of Days])