Looking at the Date/Time Athena documentation, I don't see a function to do this, which surprises me. The closest I see is date_trunc('week', timestamp) but that results in something like 2017-07-09 00:00:00.000 while I would like the format to be 2017-07-09
Is there an easy function to convert a timestamp to a date?
The reason for not having a conversion function is, that this can be achieved with a type cast.
So a converting query would look like this:
select DATE(current_timestamp)
In case you have an ISO DateTime format you can use the following syntax:
select date(from_iso8601_timestamp(COLUMN_NAME)) FROM "TABLE_NAME";
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In SQLite, how to compare date without passing timestamp?
The date format is 2018-03-18 08:24:46.101655+00 and I want to compare against only date part as 2018-03-18.
I have tried as where mydate='2018-03-18' but that didn't return any records.
Similarly, tried Date(mydate)='2018-03-18' but that didn't help either.
How can I compare dates ignoring the timestamp part?
select * from mytable
where strftime('%Y-%m-%d', mydate) = '2018-03-18'
This is not one of the supported date formats.
To extract the date part from the string, use substr():
... WHERE substr(mydate, 1, 10) = '2018-03-18'
It might be a better idea to store dates in a correct format in the database to begin with.
It is looking that there is problem with date format.
Sqlite doesn't understand data like '+00' in date.
So date() and strftime() will not work here if data type is 'timestamp with time zone'.
Try by using like clause.
Try using strftime
SELECT strftime('%Y %m %d', 'columnName');
you can find it here strftime.php
I have timestamp strings that look something like the example here:
2017-07-12T01:51:12.732-0600. Is there any function/combination of functions I can use this to convert this to UTC accurately?
The output should be 2017-07-12 07:51:12.732000. I've tried using to_timestamp and convert_timezone. Obviously, the latter failed, but so did the former and I'm at my wit's end. Help?
you can convert the string directly to timestamp and then set source timezone in convert_timezone function like this (note, offset sign is the opposite to timezone):
select convert_timezone('UTC+06','utc','2017-07-12T01:51:12.732-0600'::timestamp)
if -0600 part is varying you can construct 'UTC+06' part dynamically like this
with times as (
select '2017-07-12T01:51:12.732-0600'::varchar(28) as ts_col
)
select convert_timezone('utc'+(substring(ts_col from 24 for 3)::integer*(-1))::varchar(3),'utc',ts_col::timestamp)
from times
This looks easy solution but I can't seem to figure out as to why this is not working for me. I have a column that has data like this:
DateField
----------
12/16/2016
11/06/2016
All I want to do is to convert from varchar into a date column, but I am getting this error:
Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string.
Here is my simple query:
select convert (date, DateField) as convertedField
from myTable
Nothing wrong with the two examples you have given. There are some bad dates in your table which cannot be converted to date.
Use TRY_CONVERT function for bad dates it will return NULL
select TRY_Convert(date,DateField)
From myTable
You should always store dates in DATE/DATETIME datatype.
If you want to see the records which cannot be converted to date then
select DateField
From myTable
Where TRY_Convert(date,DateField) IS NULL
If working with a specific date format like mm/dd/yyyy You can specify it in Convert() function like the following
CONVERT(DATETIME,DATAFIELD,101)
If it still is not working, use TRY_CONVERT() to get which rows are throwing this exception:
SELECT *
FROM TBL
WHERE TRY_CONVERT(DATETIME, DATAFIELD, 101) IS NULL
This will return rows that cannot be converted
TRY_CONVERT() will return NULL if conversion failed
Read more about DateTime formats here:
SQL Server CONVERT() Function tutorial
Read TRY_CONVERT MSDN Article
You need to specify the format of date time while formatting. The date in your table is currently in U.S format so you should pass the third argument 101 in your convert function.
SELECT CONVERT(date,[DateField],101) FROM myTable;
Working Fiddle here http://rextester.com/NYKR49788
More info about date time style here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187928.aspx
My table in hive has a filed of date in the format of '2016/06/01'. but i find that it is not in harmory with the format of '2016-06-01'.
They can not compare for instance.
Both of them are string .
So I want to know how to make them in harmory and can compare them. Or on the other hand, how to change the '2016/06/01' to '2016-06-01' so that them can compare.
Many thanks.
To convert date string from one format to another you have to use two date function of hive
unix_timestamp(string date, string pattern) convert time string
with given pattern to unix time stamp (in seconds), return 0 if
fail.
from_unixtime(bigint unixtime[, string format]) converts the
number of seconds from unix epoch (1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC) to a
string representing the timestamp of that moment in the current
system time zone.
Using above two function you can achieve your desired result.
The sample input and output can be seen from below image:
The final query is
select from_unixtime(unix_timestamp('2016/06/01','yyyy/MM/dd'),'yyyy-MM-dd') from table1;
where table1 is the table name present in my hive database.
I hope this help you!!!
Let's say you have a column 'birth_day' in your table which is in your format,
you should use the following query to convert birth_day into the required format.
date_Format(birth_day, 'yyyy-MM-dd')
You can use it in a query in the following way
select * from yourtable
where
date_Format(birth_day, 'yyyy-MM-dd') = '2019-04-16';
Use :
unix_timestamp(DATE_COLUMN, string pattern)
The above command would help convert the date to unix timestamp format which you may format as you want using the Simple Date Function.
Date Function
cast(to_date(from_unixtime(unix_timestamp(yourdate , 'MM-dd-yyyy'))) as date)
here is my solution (for string to real Date type):
select to_date(replace('2000/01/01', '/', '-')) as dt ;
ps:to_date() returns Date type, this feature needs Hive 2.1+; before 2.1, it returns String.
ps2: hive to_date() function or date_format() function , or even cast() function, cannot regonise the 'yyyy/MM/dd' or 'yyyymmdd' format, which I think is so sad, and make me a little crazy.
I need to convert dates like this:
3/2/2016 12:00:00 AM
to this:
2-MAR-2016
For ORACLE You can use to_char(your_date, format)
SELECT TO_CHAR(your_Date ,'DD-MON-YYYY')
FROM DUAL;
for mysql
SELECT TO_CHAR(your_Date ,'%d-%m-%Y')
FROM DUAL;
Oracle's default date format is YYYY-mm-dd. We can use the TO_CHAR method to convert to a specific format.
TO_CHAR(date, 'FMDD-MON-YYYY')
Breakdown
FMDD- Apperantly, just using DD as recommended in the documentation does not format days with a leading 0. You need to use FMDD.
MON- Abbreviated month name
%YYYY- Long year format
Reference: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28286/sql_elements004.htm
In my-sql, the same could be accomplished with the DATE_FORMAT method
DATE_FORMAT(date, '%d-%b-%y')
Slightly different formatter options
Scroll down to the Datetime Format Elements