Hi I have to retrieve from my table most recent records that match a given MM-YYYY, but the date field in the table is DD-MM-YYYY, how do I get this done?
Thank you very much
Best Regards
Ignacio.
How many of the most recent records do you need?
Could you not query for all the dates in the relevant month, order by the dates, and then only select the results you need from the top of the list.
For example:
SELECT TOP(1) *
FROM your_table
WHERE date_time_field >= '20120101'
AND date_time_field < '20120201'
ORDER BY date_time_field DESC
This would select the most recent record from January of this year.
Change the number inside the TOP() statement to change the number of results returned, or leave it off altogether and take comfort in the fact that your results are ordered.
SELECT * FROM `your`.`schemaTableNames` WHERE your_coulumn_name LIKE "%-MM-YYYY";
should give you the matching records, as you wrote that you want to retrieve.
Have you tried using DateDiff(month, date1, date2) == 0 in your where clause?
This assumes that you can convert both values to DATETIME. If you only have the year and the month, every month has day 01.
to convert a date to desire format you can use style to retrive the records date formats
The following works:
right(select convert(varchar, <date field>, 110), 7)
The full query would look someting like this:
select *
from table
where right(select convert(varchar, <date field>, 110), 7) = 'MM-YYYY'
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I have a SQL query that includes a __DATE__ macro. A Python script replaces this macro with the current date and then the statement is executed thus giving one day's worth of data.
For the first item selected, I would like to use tblLabTestResult.CollectionDate instead of __DATE__.
I would like to include the prior 7 days instead of just the current day.
The desired output would be something similar to:
Date,Result,Total
2021-08-28,Detected,5
2021-08-28,Not Detected,9
2021-08-29,Detected,23
2021-08-29,Not Detected,6
2021-08-30,Detected,88
2021-08-30,Not Detected,26
Current query:
SELECT
'__DATE__' as Date,
tblLabTestResult.Result as Result,
Count(tblLabTestResult.Result) as Total
FROM
PncRegDb.dbo.tblLabTestResult as tblLabTestResult
WHERE
tblLabTestResult.TestName like '%cov%'
AND tblLabTestResult.TestName not like '%aoe%'
AND tblLabTestResult.TestName not like '%antibody%'
AND tblLabTestResult.CollectionDate >= '__DATE__'
AND tblLabTestResult.CollectionDate <= '__DATE__ 11:59:59 PM'
GROUP BY
tblLabTestResult.Result;
How can I change my SQL query to accommodate these requirements? I am using MS SQL Server.
You can use DATEADD() function to get the date from 7 days ago and use all dates between date-7days and date. I have updated where condition in your query below:
SELECT
'__DATE__' as Date,
tblLabTestResult.Result as Result,
Count(tblLabTestResult.Result) as Total
FROM
PncRegDb.dbo.tblLabTestResult as tblLabTestResult
WHERE
tblLabTestResult.TestName like '%cov%'
AND tblLabTestResult.TestName not like '%aoe%'
AND tblLabTestResult.TestName not like '%antibody%'
AND tblLabTestResult.CollectionDate between DATEADD(day, -7, '__DATE__') and '__DATE__ 11:59:59 PM'
GROUP BY
tblLabTestResult.Result;
A few points:
Columns that are not aggregated must be in the GROUP BY
You should be passing your date as a parameter
Best to use a half-open interval to compare dates (exclusive end-point), so #endDate is the day after the one you want
Use short, meaningful aliases to make your code more readable
It doesn't make sense to group and aggregate by the same column. If Result is a non-nullable column then Count(Result) is the same as Count(*)
If you want to group by whole days (and CollectionDate has a time component) then replace ltr.CollectionDate with CAST(ltr.CollectionDate AS date) in both the SELECT and GROUP BY
SELECT
ltr.CollectionDate as Date,
ltr.Result as Result,
COUNT(*) as Total
FROM
PncRegDb.dbo.tblLabTestResult as tblLabTestResult
WHERE
ltr.TestName like '%cov%'
AND ltr.TestName not like '%aoe%'
AND ltr.TestName not like '%antibody%'
AND ltr.CollectionDate >= #startdate
AND ltr.CollectionDate < #endDate
GROUP BY
ltr.CollectionDate, ltr.Result;
So this my table structure and data.
Now I want to filter data based on Month by ExpenseDate column.
So how can I achieve that?
I was trying
select * from tblExpenses where (ExpenseDate = MONTH('April'))
But it throws an error: "Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string."
Please help. Thank you.
You are putting month() on the wrong column. It can be applied to ExpensesDate:
select *
from tblExpenses
where month(ExpenseDate) = 4;
Note that month() returns a number, not the name of the month.
I think it is more likely that you want records from a particular April, not every April. This would be expressed as:
where ExpenseDate >= '2018-04-01' and ExpenseDate < '2018-05-01'
I think your where clause is just reversed I think you want this (and change the word to a number)
select * from tblExpenses where Month(ExpenseDate) = 4
I want to select rows for a field MRD which is declared as date where it is prior for that date only.
So
(case when sum (transPoints) > 4 and MRD is that same date then 4
So if a row has a date of today, I want the case when to be triggered when the transaction points are bigger than 4 against all columns with the same date.
As you can imagine the date field will be different against many rows.
Based on what I can understand from your question, it seems that the GROUP BY clause may be what you're looking for. If your date column is in the correct format then you may have to use something like:
SELECT CAST(DateColumn as DATE)
FROM YourTable
GROUP BY CAST(DateColumn as DATE)
I'm trying to answer questions like, how many POs per month do we have? Or, how many lines are there in every PO by month, etc. The original PO dates are all formatted #1/1/2013#. So my first step was to Format each PO record date into 'mmyy' so I could group and COUNT them.
This worked well but, now I cannot view the data by date... For example, I cannot ask 'How many POs after December did we get?' I think this is because SQL does not recognize mm/yy as a comparable date.
Any ideas how I could restructure this?
There are 2 queries I wrote. This is the query to format the dates. This is also the query I was trying to add the date filter to (ex: >#3/14#)
SELECT qryALL_PO.POLN, Format([PO CREATE DATE],"mm/yy") AS [Date]
FROM qryALL_PO
GROUP BY qryALL_PO.POLN, Format([PO CREATE DATE],"mm/yy");
My group and counting query is:
SELECT qryALL_PO.POLN, Sum(qryALL_PO.[LINE QUANTITY]) AS SUM_QTY_PO
FROM qryALL_PO
GROUP BY qryALL_PO.POLN;
You can still count and group dates, as long as you have a way to determine the part of the date you are looking for.
In Access you can use year and month for example to get the year and month part of the date:
select year(mydate)
, month(mydate)
, count(*)
from tableX
group
by year(mydate)
, month(mydate)
You can format it 'YYYY-MM' , and then use '>' for 'after' clause
I have a table with a date column where date is stored in this format:
2012-08-01 16:39:17.601455+0530
How do I group or group_and_count on this column by month?
Your biggest problem is that SQLite won't directly recognize your dates as dates.
CREATE TABLE YOURTABLE (DateColumn date);
INSERT INTO "YOURTABLE" VALUES('2012-01-01');
INSERT INTO "YOURTABLE" VALUES('2012-08-01 16:39:17.601455+0530');
If you try to use strftime() to get the month . . .
sqlite> select strftime('%m', DateColumn) from yourtable;
01
. . . it picks up the month from the first row, but not from the second.
If you can reformat your existing data as valid timestamps (as far a SQLite is concerned), you can use this relatively simple query to group by year and month. (You almost certainly don't want to group by month alone.)
select strftime('%Y-%m', DateColumn) yr_mon, count(*) num_dates
from yourtable
group by yr_mon;
If you can't do that, you'll need to do some string parsing. Here's the simplest expression of this idea.
select substr(DateColumn, 1, 7) yr_mon, count(*) num_dates
from yourtable
group by yr_mon;
But that might not quite work for you. Since you have timezone information, it's sure to change the month for some values. To get a fully general solution, I think you'll need to correct for timezone, extract the year and month, and so on. The simpler approach would be to look hard at this data, declare "I'm not interested in accounting for those edge cases", and use the simpler query immediately above.
It took me a while to find the correct expression using Sequel. What I did was this:
Assuming a table like:
CREATE TABLE acct (date_time datetime, reward integer)
Then you can access the aggregated data as follows:
ds = DS[:acct]
ds.select_group(Sequel.function(:strftime, '%Y-%m', :date_time))
.select_append{sum(:reward)}.each do |row|
p row
end