I would like to make an SQL-Statement in order to find the amount of users that are using a channel by date and time. Let me give you an example:
Let's call this table Data:
Date Start End
01.01.2020 17:00 17:30
01.01.2020 17:01 17:03
01.01.2020 17:29 18:30
Data is a table that shows when an user started the connection on a channel and the time the connection was closed. A connection can be made any time, which means from 00:00 until the next day.
What I am trying to achieve is to count the maximum number of connections that were made over a big period if time. Let's say 1st February to 1st April.
My idea was to make another table with timestamps in Excel. The table would display a Timestamp for every Minute in a specific date.
Then I tried to make a statement like:
SELECT *
FROM Data,Timestamps
WHERE Timestamps.Time BETWEEN Data.Start AND Data.End.
Now logically this statement does what is supposed to do. The only problem is that it is not really performant and therefore not finishing. With the amount of timestamps and the amount of data I have to check it is not able to finish.
Could anybody help me with this problem? Any other ideas I can try or how to improve my statement?
Regards!
So why dou you create another table in Excel and not directly in MS Access and then why won't you set up the indexes of the timestamps right. That will speed it up by factors.
By the way I think that your statement will print repeat every user that happened to match your Start .. End period, so the amount of rows produced will be enormous. You shall rather try
SELECT Timestamps.Time, COUNT(*)
FROM Data,Timestamps
WHERE Timestamps.Time BETWEEN Data.Start AND Data.End
GROUP BY Timestamps.Time;
But sorry if the syntax in MS Access is different.
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I have table with a column "Begin At" and another column "End At" that represent when a task begin and when a task end i would want to have a Bar display which display the cuantity of tasks that are being done in a specific hour along an interval of time.
For example, from the following table
I would want to be able to see that from 07/12/2021 21:00 to 07/12/2021 22:00 there were 3 tasks being done (row 1, row 2, row 3).
And also as i will have several thousands of rows i would want to use the date widget from metabase in order to specify range of times.
I have been struggling with this from the last week, i tried to create auxiliar questions where to query after but finally my only succeed was to hard code the 24 hours from a day but then i was not able to use the time widget and i needed to specify the dates myself on the sql each time i want to check a specific day and also i only was able to check from 24 to 24 hours, not from for example 02/12/2021 6:00 to 04/12/2021 18:00
My metabase is running on a PostgreSQL database. Is this even possible on Metabase? If not what are your advices to build this? Other plaforms? Pure SQL? Python?
Thank you so much
I am not sure about metabase but from a PostgreSQL point of view this calls for the use of range-types, specifically the tsrange/tstzrange, depending on whether you have time zone information or not.
So a query could be:
SELECT
*
FROM "someTable"
WHERE
tsrange("Begin At", "End At", '[)')
&&
tsrange('02/12/2021 6:00', '04/12/2021 18:00', '[)')
However I don't know how you would get the '02/12/2021 6:00' and '04/12/2021 18:00' out of your metabase user-interface.
50 records in databank. I prepared a query to select contracts with ending dates between 1/1/2019 and 12/31/2020. Some of the records have dates outside the 12/31/2020; 12/31/2021. I want those records included as they were active during the queried period.
The between query only returns records with the ending date of 12/31/2020. I changed the criteria to end period between 1/1/2019 and 12/31/2021 and not 12/31/2022. That returns records before end end date of 12/31/20 and outside the start of the end period of 1/1/2019.
I've tried about 10 other things (can't remember all of them) regardless am not getting the results I need.
I'm not VBA/SQL friendly, I'm a query kind of user. Sorry if that makes my question a little more difficult.
Thank you soooo much for any direction you can give me!!
select *, DATE_FORMAT(*datetime_column*,'%m/%d/%Y') from *table_name* where *datetime_column* between '1/1/2019' and '12/31/2020'
I think the format of date leads to 'query don't satisfy correct result' problem. You could convert the date to this format and check the result
I have a table (Access 2016) tbl_b with date/time registrations
b_customer (num)
b_date (date)
b_start (date/time)
b_end (date/time)
I want to make a chart of all time registrations per day in a selected month and the gaps between those times. For this I need a query or table showing all times as source for the chart. I’m a bit lost how to approach this.
I assume the chart source needs consecutive records with all date and time registrations to do this. My approach would be create a temporary table (tmp) calculating all time periods where the customer is null. The next step would be a union query to combine the tbl_b and tmp table.
The tbl_b does not have records for every day, so I use a query generating all days in the selected month which shall be used in the chart (found this solution here: [Create a List of Dates in Access Query)
The disadvantage of using a tmp table for the “time gaps” is that it is not updating real time, where a query would provide this opportunity. I have about 20 queries to perform the end result, but MS Access keeps giving (expected) errors that the queries are too difficult.
Every query looks for difference between the in the previous query found end time and the next start time. On the other hand this approach has a weaknes as well, I thought 15 steps would be enough (no more than 15 gaps expected), but this is not sure.
Can anyone give me a head start how this can be accomplished by an easier (and actual working) method? Maybe VBA?
Thx!
Art
I run a query every day to place in a file. It is regarding effective date and term dates of coverage. occasionally have a group that will actually term and become effective again the next day. I need help with SQL code that will pick up the original effective date and the latest expiration date. The example that I am giving is a very small part of the table.. due to hippa regulations. The SQL code that I currently am using is super easy query code and I have supplied just the lines of data within the attachment.you will see where this member has 2 effect dates and 2 term dates I need to display it as one..with 01/01/2018 as effect and 12/31/9999 as term. cannot figure out how to add an attachment.. so I am just going to copy the two rows.
meme_altid meme_eff meme_trm
S409666X1E 2018-01-01 2018-12-31
S409666X1E 2019-01-01 9999-12-31
Earliest eff and latest term?
Select meme_altid, Min(meme_eff) As eff, Max(meme_trm) As term From #tbl
Group By meme_altid
I need to figure out how I can select the AVG from another column in a table, between two hour time intervals. I am using PL/SQL/Serverpages or PSP, so the user would select their interval of choice from a drop down menu (ex "2PM-4PM, 4PM-6PM",etc.) and then on the second page, using their choice I will provide information from another column in the table. The issue I have is that the format of my timestamp column is:
30-OCT-16 02.52.00.000000000 PM
30-OCT-16 02.54.00.000000000 PM
The way I have been trying to solve this problem is by using the following methodology:
IF number_text = 1 THEN
SELECT AVG(column) INTO avg_power
FROM table
WHERE date_column BETWEEN TO_DATE('12','HH') AND TO_DATE('2','HH')
AND LIKE '%PM';
I am going to use various IF statements in order to activate each select statement with the IF contingent on which interval the user selects from a drop down list.
As I said, the variable time depends on what the user selects on a prior page. My biggest issues in this situation are figuring out how I am supposed to code the WHERE clause as well as finding a way to work with the data, in terms of hours, as it exists in the database, while also taking AM and PM into account. I greatly appreciate any and all help to solve this issue.