I am working on a SSRS report that displays Date, Time and few other columns.
My SP returns just Date Column (which has time part in it) and a few other columns.
In the report I want to group by Date Part and show all details including the time (I used formatting option "T" to display only Time in Date column) in the details group.
For grouping on Date I used:
=FormatDateTime(Fields!TxDate.Value, DateFormat.ShortDate)
Which seems working. However if I try to sort on other columns it is not working. Any thoughts/suggestions on this?
It might be easier if you were to add an extra column into your dataset that was based on your original date+time column but containing just the date. Then you can use this to do a simple group on that column.
For example, if the dataset is based on a SQL query and your date+time column is called [Date], then add another column in the query as CONVERT(DATE, [Date]) AS DateOnly or something similar.
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In my program, I have a data grid view. I make some amounts due for payment today. I made a display of the amounts that are due and have not been paid (late) I want a code that displays the dates less than the current date of the day I tried that following code but it only fetches the lower days and does not look For the month or year if it is greater or not than the current day's date
tbl = db.readData("SELECT * from Payments where date_batch < CONVERT(varchar(50),GetDate(), 103)", "");
DgvSearch.DataSource = tbl;
The problem with the previous code is that it doesn't fetch the date lower by day, month and year.
Fetches the date less than the current date in terms of day only I want in terms of day, month and year
Ok, so I'm going to assume date_batch is a VARCHAR(10) or similar and contains data like:
28/12/2021
29/11/2021
30/08/2021
31/12/2021
As you can see these "strings that look like dates to a human" are in order. They are not in date order, they are in alphabetical order. Big difference - SQLServer sorts strings alphabetically. When you ask for strings "less than x" it uses alphabetical sorting rules to determine "less than"-ness
Don't stores dates in a string. SQLServer has several date specific datatypes. Use them.
The following process will dig you out of the hole you've dug yourself into:
ALTER TABLE Payments ADD COLUMN BatchDate DATE;
UPDATE Payments SET BatchDate = TRY_CONVERT(Date, date_batch, 103);
Now go look at your table and sanity check it:
SELECT * FROM payments WHERE batchdate is null and date_batch is not null
This shows any dates that didn't convert. Correct their wonky bad data and run the update again.
Do another select, of all the data, and eyeball it; does it look sensible? Do you have any dates that have been put in as 02/03/2021 when they should have been 03/02/2021 etc
Now your table is full of nice dates, get rid of the strings;
ALTER TABLE Payments DROP COLUMN date_batch;
Maybe rename the column, but in SQLServer and c# WeCallThingsNamesLikeThis, we_dont_call_them_names_like_this
sp_rename 'Payments.BatchDate', 'date-batch', 'COLUMN';
Now you can do:
SELECT * FROM payments WHERE batchDate < GetDate()
And never again store dates in a string
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()
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.
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'
Long title, easy meaning:
How is it possible to extract from a date like "2014-04-04 10:47:30.000", which is stored in one column, it's components like year, month and day?
I'm not interested in the time.
For example, I have a table called "Incidents". Inside the table we got a column called "IncidentID" and a column called "ReportingDate", in which dates like the above-mentionend are stored. Let's say we have about 50k Incidents, therefore we have also 50k dates.
A year has 365 days. I want to query for the count of the Incidents, which were reported on different dates - for instance on the 5th of October 2013.
So: How can I get the components of the date and put them into another table while having own columns for the components and how can I query for the Incidents as well?
I guess at first I have to change the datatype of the date from DATETIME to DATE, but I'm not quite sure how to go further. May anyone help me while giving me a code and explains me what it does for a sql-noob? :-)
To achieve this
I want to query for the count of the Incidents, which were reported on
different dates - for instance on the 5th of October 2013.
you haven't do this:
I guess at first I have to change the datatype of the date from
DATETIME to DATE, but I'm not quite sure how to go further.
Just query
SELECT
IncidentID
FROM incidents
WHERE ReportingDate >= '20131005'
AND ReportingDate < '20131006'