Using Marketing Cloud:
I have a data extension with a date field.
On a cloudpage, using ampscript, i need to get all the records from that data extension where the date field is between/including 2 dates.
The LookupRows function seems to be the best available but i can only directly compare values to each other, it can't use a "between" statement.
What would be the best way to achieve this ?
( Other than executing a LookupRows for each date separately )
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Brief Summary:
I am currently trying to get a count of completed parts that fall within a specific time range, machine number, operation number, and matches the tool number.
For example:
SELECT Sequence, Serial, Operation,Machine,DateTime,value as Tool
FROM tbPartProfile
CROSS APPLY STRING_SPLIT(Tool_Used, ',')
ORDER BY DateTime desc
is running a query which pulls all the instances that a tool has been changed, I am splitting the CSV from Tool_Used column. I am doing this because there can be multiple changes during one operation.
Objective:
This is where the production count come into place. For example, record 1 has a to0l change of 36 on 12/12/2022. I will need to go back in to the table and get the amount of part completed that equals the OPERATION/MACHINE/TOOL and fall between the date range.
For example:
SELECT *
FROM tbPartProfile
WHERE Operation = 20 AND Machine = 1 AND Tool_Used LIKE '%36%'
ORDER BY DateTime desc
For example this query will give me the datetimes the tools LIKE 36 was changed. I will need to take this datetime and compare it previous query and get the sum of all parts that were ran in this TimeRange/Operation/Machine/Tool Used
I've tried limiting data on monthly basis in spotfire and it's working fine.
Now I'm trying to do like getting the records from the current date to month start date.
For suppose if the current date is Sept 21, then i should get the records from Sept 21 to Sept-01(dynamically).
I have a property control to input the number of months.
The easiest way to do this is with Month and Year. For example, in your visualization:
Right Click > Properties > Data > Limit Data Using Expressions (Edit)
Then, use this expression:
Month([TheDate]) = Month(DateTimeNow()) and Year([TheDate]) = Year(DateTimeNow())
This will limit the data to only those rows with the current Year/Month combination in your data column. Just replace [TheDate] with whatever your date column name is.
In other places, you can wrap this in an IF statement if you'd like. It's redundant in this case, but sometimes helps with readability.
IF(Month([TheDate]) = Month(DateTimeNow()) and Year([TheDate]) = Year(DateTimeNow()),TRUE,FALSE)
#san - Adding to #scsimon answer. If you would like to precisely limit values between 1st of the current month to current date, you could add the below expression to 'Limit data using expression' section.
[Date]>=date(1&'-'&Month(DateTimeNow())&'-'&year(DateTimeNow())) and [Date]<=DateTimeNow()
Here trip 1 involves 2 activity_code in a single day and also concludes in a single day and most other activities are just single day but i have one trip that span over more than one day.
What could be the best possible way to store date range for that column that span more than one days.
Splitting the column into multiple begin date and end date just doesn't make sense as there would be many blank columns?
trip_id(pk,fk) Activity_code(pk,fk) date
1 a1 1st October 2015
1 a2 1st October 2015
2 a3 2nd -5th October 2015
Keep in mind that i need to search the activity_code on basis of month. such as list all the activity code that occur in October ?
Is it possible to insert a range of date in a single column or any other design solution ?
Is there any datatype that can represent the date range in single value ?
PS: oracle 11g e
Store the date ranges as FirstDate/LastDate or FirstDate/Duration.
This allows you to store the values in the native format for dates. Storing dates as strings is a bad, bad idea, because strings don't have all the built-in functionality provided for native date types.
Don't worry about the additional storage for a second date or duration. In fact, the two columns together are probably smaller than storing the value as a string.
Splitting the date into start date and end date would be ideal. Storing dates as strings is not recommended. If you store your dates as strings then there is a possibility of malformed data being stored in the column since a VARCHAR2 column will allow any value. You will have to build strong validations in your script while inserting the data which is unnecessary.
Secondly, you will not be able to perform simple operations like calculating the duration/length of the trip easily if both the start_date and end_date are stored in the same column. If they are stored in different columns it would be as simple as
SELECT trip_id, activity_code, end_date - start_date FROM trips;
We are trying to select records from a file containing sales data where the date in the IBM i file is stored in 3 separate numeric fields (Year, Month, Day). We have a .net application that is using date pickers to select a from and through date range. Is there a way in an SQL statement to combine the 3 fields from the database into a single value so that the database date can be used to make the SQL select easier?
Use the digits command to tie them together. Your parameters will be YYYYMMDD.
Where digits(year) || digits(month) || digits(day) BETWEEN ? and ?
I have around 20,000 entries in a SQL table for which a date column is of the form
YYYY-MM-DD HH-SS. I would like to convert this format to a YYYY-MM-DD format so I can run a query on all of the entries that will count the number of entries based on
a) the month under which they fall
b) the day
I'm new to SQL and not sure if there is a way to loop through all of the entries and check based on the required criteria; and as such, would greatly appreciate any help.
I unfortunately, cannot send a screenshot of the table since the data is classified.
You don't need to change the data in the table. Most databases have year() and month() functions, so you could do:
select year(datecol), month(datecol), count(*)
from sqltable
group by year(datecol), month(datecol)
order by year(datecol), month(datecol);
If these specific functions are not available, then I'm sure your database supports something similar.