I have a table named Sales and a column within it named Date. I'm simply trying to find how many sales were made on a specific date. My intuition was to use something like this:
SELECT COUNT(Date) FROM Sales WHERE Date='2015-04-04'
this should count all sales that were made on that date, but that returns 0. What am I doing wrong?
While it is difficult to be precise without table definitions or an indication of what RDBMS you are using, it is likely that Date is a time/date stamp, and that the result you want would be obtained either by looking for a range from the beginning of the day to the end of the day in your WHERE clause, or by truncating Date down to a date without the time before comparing it to a date.
Try the below once.
select count(*) from <t.n> where date like '2015-04-04%';
When you want to find the count of rows based on a field (Date) You need to Group By over it like this:
SELECT Date, COUNT(*)
FROM Sales
GROUP BY Date
Now you have all count of rows for each Date.
Type and Value of Date is important in the result of the above query.
For example in SQL Server your best try is to convert a DateTime field to varchar and then check it as the result of CONVERT like this:
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM Sales
WHERE CONVERT(VARCHAR, Date, 111) = '2015/04/04'
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Problem: I am trying to convert date from rows to columns as week numbers and get the price from the highest week number and call it givenPrice.
expected:
See below. In your case, shopName is the row field, date is your pivot field, and price is your crosstab field. Since it appears that you are not doing anything to the crosstab values, we can just use a Max() function as a dummy because we don't need to ensure that the values in the pivot field are unique. So, I came up with this:
TRANSFORM Max(price)
SELECT shopName
FROM YourTable
GROUP BY shopName
PIVOT date;
NOTE: This query is Access SQL.
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Im trying to make a small report for myself to see how my much time I get inputed in my system every day.
The goal is to have my SQL to sum up the name, Total time worked and Total NG product found for one specific day.
In this order:
1.) Sort out my data for a specific 'date'. I.E 2016-06-03
2.) Present a DISTINCT value for 'operators'
3.) SUM() all time registered at this 'date' and by this 'operator' under 'total_working_time_h'
4.) SUM() all no_of_defects registered at this 'date' and by this 'operator' under 'no_of_defects'
date, operator, total_working_time_h, no_of_defects
Currently I get the data I want by using the Query below. But now I need both the DISTINCT value of the operator and the SUM of the information. Can I use sub-queries for this or should it be done by a loop? Any other hints where I can learn more about how to solve this?
If i run the DISTINCT function I don't get the opportunity to sum my data the way I try.
SELECT date, operator, total_working_time_h, no_of_defects FROM {$table_work_hours} WHERE date = '2016-06-03' "
Without knowing the table structure or contents, the following query is only a good guess. The bits to notice and work with are sum() and GROUP BY. Actually syntax will vary a bit depending on what RDBMS you are using.
SELECT
date
,operator
,SUM(total_working_time_h) AS total_working_time_h
,SUM(no_of_defects) AS no_of_defects
FROM {$table_work_hours}
WHERE date = '2016-06-03'
GROUP BY
date
,operator
(Take out the WHERE clause or replace it with a range of dates to get results per operator per date.)
I'm not sure why you are trying to do DISTINCT. You want to know the data, no of hours, etc for a specific date.
do this....
Select Date, Operator, 'SumWorkHrs'=sum(total_working_time_h),
'SumDefects'=sum(no_ofDefects) from {$table_work_hours}
Where date='2016-06-03'
Try this:
SELECT SUM(total_working_time) as total_working_time,
SUM(no_of_defects) as no_of_defects ,
DISTINCT(operator) AS operator FROM {$table_work_hours} WHERE
date = '2016-06-03'
Alright, I'm stumped here. I'm trying to get a list of only unique dates from the following table:
SALES(OUTLET_NUMBER, EMP_NUMBER, CUSTOMER_ID, PRODUCT_CODE, SALE_DATE, SALE_TIME, quantity)
But when I try the statement:
SELECT SALE_DATE
FROM sales
GROUP BY
SALE_DATE;
It does not remove already existing dates.
SALE_DATE
20-MAR-14
19-MAR-14
20-MAR-14
20-MAR-14
01-DEC-13
19-MAR-14
This is the output from oracle. Why does it sill display 3 versions of 20-MAR-14 and what can I do to get it to give me only unique dates?
In Oracle, the date data type rather misleadingly also contains a time. The easiest way to do what you want is using trunc(), although you could also format the date as a string using to_char().
Try this:
SELECT trunc(SALE_DATE) as sale_date
FROM sales
GROUP BY trunc(SALE_DATE)
ORDER BY trunc(SALE_DATE);
The date type in Oracle also stores the time. When you print out the dates you've queried they are transformed to strings according to your default date format. Since it seems to be dd-mon-yy, you don't see their time part, and it seems like you have duplicates.
You could, for instnace, remove the time part by using the trunc function:
SELECT DISTINCT TRUNC(sale_date) FROM sales
I hope the title of this post makes sense.
The db in question has two columns that are related to my issue, a date column that follows the format xx/xx/xxxx and price a column. What I want to do is get a sum of the prices in the price column based on the month and year in which they occurred, but that data is in the other aforementioned column. Doing so will allow me to determine the total for a given month of a given year. The problem is I have no idea how to construct a query that would do what I need. I have done some reading on the web, but I'm not really sure how to go about this. Can anyone provide some advice/tips?
Thanks for your time!
Mike
I was able to find a solution using a LIKE clause:
SELECT sum(price) FROM purchases WHERE date LIKE '11%1234%'
The "11" could be any 2-digit month and the "1234" is any 4 digit year. The % sign acts as a wildcard. This query, for example, returns the sum of any prices that were from month 11 of year 1234 in the db.
Thanks for your input!
You cannot use the built-in date functions on these date values because you have stored them formatted for displaing instead of in one of the supported date formats.
If the month and day fields always have two digits, you can use substr:
SELECT substr(MyDate, 7, 4) AS Year,
substr(MyDate, 1, 2) AS Month,
sum(Price)
FROM Purchases
GROUP BY Year,
Month
So, the goal is to get an aggregate grouping by the month?
select strftime('%m', mydate), sum(price)
from mytable
group by strftime('%m', mydate)
Look into group by
I've got a table with purchase orders stored in it. Each row has a timestamp indicating when the order was placed. I'd like to be able to create a report indicating the number of purchases each day, month, or year. I figured I would do a simple SELECT COUNT(xxx) FROM tbl_orders GROUP BY tbl_orders.purchase_time and get the value, but it turns out I can't GROUP BY a timestamp column.
Is there another way to accomplish this? I'd ideally like a flexible solution so I could use whatever timeframe I needed (hourly, monthly, weekly, etc.) Thanks for any suggestions you can give!
This does the trick without the date_trunc function (easier to read).
// 2014
select created_on::DATE from users group by created_on::DATE
// updated September 2018 (thanks to #wegry)
select created_on::DATE as co from users group by co
What we're doing here is casting the original value into a DATE rendering the time data in this value inconsequential.
Grouping by a timestamp column works fine for me here, keeping in mind that even a 1-microsecond difference will prevent two rows from being grouped together.
To group by larger time periods, group by an expression on the timestamp column that returns an appropriately truncated value. date_trunc can be useful here, as can to_char.