I'm selecting a series of columns to place in a new table. One of these columns (EPISTART_RAW) is a date variable that is currently listed as a raw number, such as 13042015 and 01010216. What I'd like to do is convert these numbers according to a sensible date format, such as 13-APR-15 and 01-JAN-16.
I'm working through various examples I'd found online, but struggling.
I believe you just want to_date():
select to_date(EPISTART_RAW, 'DDMMYYYY')
If it is actually stored as a number, you need to handle initial zeros, so:
select to_date(to_char(EPISTART_RAW, '00000000'), 'DDMMYYYY')
Date value should be within quote:
select to_date(to_char('01010216'),'DDMMYYYY') dt from dual
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I have 2 tables which I want to join based on date but date format present in both of them is different.
In one table date is mentioned as 10-10-2020 and in other it is 10-Oct-20. My preferred format would be 10-10-2020 or 10/10/2020.
How can this be achieved using SQL Server?
If possible, change the column that has the "oct" version to the same type as the first one or a date column. This will make the join easier since its not required to transform each row.
If that is not possible you need a hardcoded translation for the (I assume) 12 different Strings describing the months to the equivalent number 1-12. That will allow you to replace the "oct" part with a number. Then you should be able to use cast( as date) to make it a proper Date column.
You can simply use the try_cast() function as shown below:
select try_cast('10-Oct-20' as date)
The output will be as shown below:
DtDate
-----------
2020-10-10
For displaying the date in different format you can use one of the method as suggested in this link.
For simplicity see the below query:
select convert(varchar(10), try_cast('10-Nov-20' as date), 10)
select convert(varchar(10), try_cast('10-Nov-20' as date), 5)
I have a table with column DATE. Date is 'dd/mm/yyyy' and I want only days. So I try with extract and return what I need, but I what using transpose for column to row.
The select statement is:
select EXTRACT (DAY FROM "DATE") DAY
from people;
Is this thing possible?
Thank you!
If you have a string, then just use the leftmost two characters:
select substr("DATE", 1, 2) as day
That said, you should not be storing dates as strings. It is wrong, wrong, wrong. You cannot use the built-in date/time functions. You cannot use inequality comparisons either. Fix your data model.
The date format doesn't matter. It is linked to your NLS local settings and this is how you see this.
To have it generic and extract DAY from the date do this:
select to_char(sysdate, 'DD') from dual;
Would return 07 since it's September 7th 2020.
I am not getting data between two years, below is between condition
to_char(Wfc.APPLYDTM,'MM/DD/YYYY') between '12/11/2019' and '01/10/2020'
but I am getting data between '12/11/2019' and '12/31/2019' & '01/11/2020' and '01/01/2020' for these dates but not between two different years.
Please help
Try using TO_DATE instead of TO_CHAR, and then compare against valid Oracle date literals:
SELECT *
FROM Wfc
WHERE TO_DATE(APPLYDTM, 'MM/DD/YYYY') BETWEEN date '2019-12-11' AND date '2019-01-10';
Note that if APPLYDTM already be a date, then you don't need to call TO_DATE on it. It doesn't make sense to convert your data to character, if you intend to work with it as a date.
You should convert your data to Date to be able to compare correctly.
The main idea is you should compare date value instead of string value.
to_date(Wfc.APPLYDTM,'MM/dd/yyyy') between to_date('12/11/2019','MM/dd/yyyy') and to_date('01/10/2020','MM/dd/yyyy')
Read here to more details.
Do not convert date/time values to strings! Use the built in functionality.
Your logic is most simply expressed as:
Wfc.APPLYDTMbetween >= DATE '2019-12-11' AND
Wfc.APPLYDTMbetween < DATE '2020-01-11'
Note that the date constants are provided using the DATE keyword. This supposed ISO 8601 standard date formats (happily!).
Also note the use of >= and < rather than BETWEEN. The date data type in Oracle can include a time component -- even if you don't see it when you query the table. This ensures that all date/times are included in the range.
As an added benefit, this can use an index on (APPLYDTMbetween). Using a function usually precludes using an index, unless you have defined a function-based index.
I am using MS SQLServer and trying to insert a month/year combination to a table like this:
INSERT INTO MyTable VALUES (1111, 'item_name', '9/1998')
apparently, the above command cannot work since
Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string.
Because 9/1998 is a bad format. I want to fix this and this column of the table will show something like:
9/1998
12/1998
(other records with month/year format)
...
Can someone help me with this?
thank you
SQL Server only supports full dates (day, month, and year) or datetimes, as you can see over on the MSDN data type list: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff848733(v=sql.105).aspx
You can use a date value with a bogus day or store the value as a string, but there's no native type that just stores month/year pairs.
I see this is an old post but my recent tests confirm that storing Date or splitting the year and month to two columns (year smallint, month tinyint) results in the overall same size.
The difference will be visible when you actually need to parse the date to the filter you need (year/month).
Let me know what do you think of this solution! :)
Kind regards
You can just use "01" for the day:
INSERT INTO MyTable VALUES (1111, 'item_name', '19980901')
You can:
1) Change the column type to varchar
2) Take the supplied value and convert it to a proper format that sql server will accept before inserting, and format it back to 'M/YYYY' format when you pull the data: SELECT MONTH([myDate]) + '/' + YEAR([myDate]) ...
You may want to consider what use you will have for your data. At the moment, you're only concerned with capturing and displaying the data. However, going forward, you may need to perform date calculations on it (ie, compare the difference between two records). Because of this and also since you're about two-thirds of the way there, you might as well convert this field to a Date type. Your presentation layer can then be delegated with the task of displaying it appropriately as "MM/yyyy", a function which is available to just about any programming language or reporting platform you may be using.
if you want use date type, you should format value:
declare #a date
SELECT #a='2000-01-01'
select RIGHT( convert (varchar , #a, 103), 7) AS 'mm/yyyy'
if you want make query like SELECT * FROM...
you should use varchar instead date type.
I have a Date type column where are values in this format
1.1.2012 10:10:11
I need to create a filter which would filter these values by day, month and year.
I've tried
where like '% 1.1.2012 %'
but this seems to not working.
Oracle not store your date field formatted, but you can format the output with to_char function. For example:
select to_char(date_field,'dd/mm/yyyy hh24:mi:ss')
If you query a date without formatting, the output format will depend on the tool that you are using and your NLS_DATE parameter too.
To filter dates in Oracle you can use the to_date function, that receives an string and parse to date with some specific format. You can see all options of to_date here
Options to filter your date field:
where date_field between to_date('1.1.2012 00:00','d.m.yyyy hh24:mi') and to_date('1.1.2012 23:59','d.m.yyyy hh24:mi')
-- you possibly will lost some performance with this second one
where trunc(date_field) = to_date('1.1.2012','d.m.yyyy')
In MSSQL, you can use date-functions, that are easy to handle. One way would be like this:
where Year (date) = 2012
and Month(date) = 1
and Day (date) = 1
But there are other solutions. Take a look at the following page for mor information:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186724.aspx
I worked recently with string-representations of datetime-values. I recommend not do it and to work always with the dates, because of compatibility, speaking of the MSSQL-Server.
If you use string-representations of datetime-values you need to be very careful with formats on different language-settings than the one on your own server.
Strings can be interpreted different on other servers (ISO-format vs us-format).
One possibility would be to do something like this:
WHERE date_and_time >=to_date( '01.01.2012','dd.mm.yyyy') and date_and_time <= to_date('01.01.2012','dd.mm.yyyy');
date_and_time is the name of your Date column.
edit: This is for Oracle