I'm trying to query a table that has a varchar(100) "VALUE" column. This column can hold anything from a letter, a number or, in this case, a date.
The date will always be entered in the table as 'YYYY-mm-dd'. However, when I run the following query:
select * from myTable
where VALUE = '2009-12-11' (Date, Format 'yyyy-mm-dd')
I receive the following error:
Invalid date supplied for myTable.VALUE.
Example of the value table:
(1,'122')
(2,'red')
(3,'2009-12-11')
Any ideas as to what might be causing this?
Thanks!
if the data type is declared as varchar, it should just treat it like a string.
try not specifying anything about the date format, like
select * from myTable
where VALUE = '2009-12-11'
If you run an explain on the query, you can see that it's casting value to date before comparing against your supplied value. If you have another column that accurately records the type of what's in VALUE, you can add that to the where clause and you will no longer get the error (see below). Otherwise, go with Beth's recommendation.
select * from myTable
where VALUE = '2009-12-11' (Date, Format 'yyyy-mm-dd')
and VALUE_TYPE = 'DATE';
Teradata internal date calculation is (year - 1900) * 10000 + (month * 100) + day.
So if date is 02/11/2009 (2nd November 2010) then
=(2009-1900) * 10000 + (11 * 100) + 2
=109 * 10000 + 1100 + 2
=1090000 + 1100 + 2
=1090000
1100
2
----------
1091102
----------
So 2nd november 2009 is stored in Teradata as 1091102.
You can extract it in required format by casting (as u have it in varchar). Hope this helps.
Is it possible that VALUE is a reserved word in Teradata?
If so, you need to put that into double quotes:
select *
from myTable
where "VALUE" = '2009-12-11'
Related
Trying to create a new column "FiscalQrtr" that uses "Date" column in a case when, but am unable to figure it out so I went the update approach and am receiving an error message that states
"Conversion failed when converting the varchar value '%02' to data
type int".
The date column I believe is YYYYMM, so an example result would be: if Date = 200103 then FiscalQrtr = 200101
Update code looks like this:
select *
into #claims1
FROM #claims
update #claims1
set Date = left(Date, len(Date)-2) + '01'
where Date in ('%01','%02','%03');
Any help would be greatly appreicated
Why not just do all 4 quarters at once?
UPDATE #claims1
SET Date = LEFT(Date, 4) + '0' + RTRIM((RIGHT(Date,2)-1)/3+1);
If you don't like the unintuitive -1/3+1 math, you can write something that is much clearer in intent:
UPDATE #claims1 SET Date = LEFT(Date, 4) + '0' +
RTRIM(DATEPART(QUARTER, DATEFROMPARTS(LEFT(Date,4), RIGHT(Date,2), 1)));
If you just want to handle Q1 for some reason, ok, just add:
WHERE RIGHT(RTRIM(Date),1) < 4;
Example db<>fiddle
If the Date column is actually a 6 digit integer, representing YYYYMM, you can use a bit of arithmetic for this:
update #claims1
set Date = (Date / 100 * 100) + 1
where Date % 100 <= 3;
(Date / 100 * 100) truncates it, then you just add 1
You can also do all four quarters at once
update #claims1
set Date = (Date / 100 * 100) + (Date % 100 / 4 * 3 + 1);
This is because the data type of your column Date is INT and an INT data type cannot be used with LIKE. So instead, convert the Column to VARCHAR and perform the update. Like this
update #claims1
set Date = left(CAST(Date AS VARCHAR(20)), len(CAST(Date AS VARCHAR(20))-2)) + '01'
where RIGHT(CAST(Date AS VARCHAR(20)),2) in ('01','02','03');
I would like to store dates in the format CCYYMMDD in Teradata, but I fail to do so. Find below what I tried so far:
query 1:
SEL CAST(CAST(CURRENT_DATE AS DATE FORMAT 'YYYYMMDD') AS VARCHAR(8))
-- Output: 20191230 ==> this works!
query 2:
SEL CAST(CAST(CURRENT_DATE AS DATE FORMAT 'CCYYMMDD') AS VARCHAR(8))
-- output: SELECT Failed. [3530] Invalid FORMAT string 'CCYYMMDD'.
It seems that the CCYYMMDD is not available in Teradata right away. Is there a workaround?
Tool used: Teradata SQL assistant
Internally, dates are stored as integers in Teradata. So when you say you want to store them in a different format, I don't think you can do that. But you can choose how to display / return the values.
I'm sure there's a cleaner way to get the format you want, but here's one way:
WITH cte (mydate) AS (
SELECT CAST(CAST(CURRENT_DATE AS DATE FORMAT 'YYYYMMDD') AS CHAR(8)) AS mydate
)
SELECT
CAST(
(CAST(SUBSTRING(mydate FROM 1 FOR 2) AS INTEGER) + 1) -- generate "century" value
AS CHAR(2) -- cast value as string
) || SUBSTRING(mydate FROM 3) AS new_date -- add remaining portion of date string
FROM cte
SQL Fiddle - Postgres
You'd have to add some extra logic to handle years before 1000 and after 9999. I don't have a TD system to test, but give it a try and let me know.
I am trying to find a data with specific where clause of date and month but I am receiving an error can anyone help me with this?
select *
from my_data
where date BETWEEN '11-20' AND '12-15'
MS SQL Server Management Studio
I am receving an error
Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string
Most databases support functions to extract components of dates. So, one way of doing what you want is to convert the values to numbers and make a comparison like this:
where month(date) * 100 + day(date) between 1120 and 1215
The functions for extracting date parts differ by database, so your database might have somewhat different methods for doing this.
The conversion is failing because you are not specifying a year. If you were to specify '11-20-2015' your query would work just insert whatever year you need.
SELECT *
FROM my_data
WHERE date BETWEEN '11-20-2015' AND '12-15-2015'
Alternatively if you wanted data from that range of dates for multiple years I would use a while loop to insert information in a # table then read from that table, depending on the amount of data this could be quick or sloooowww here is an example.
DECLARE #mindatestart date, #mindateend date, #maxdatestart date
SET #mindatestart = '11-20-2010'
SET #mindateend = '12-15-2010'
SET #maxdatestart = '11-20-2015'
SELECT top 0 *, year = ' '
INTO #mydata
FROM my_data
WHILE #mindatestart < #maxdatestart
BEGIN
INSERT INTO #mydata
SELECT *, YEAR(#mindatestart)
FROM my_data
where date between #mindatestart and #mindateend
SET #mindatestart = DATEADD(Year, 1, #mindatestart)
SET #mindateend = DATEADD(Year, 1, #mindateend)
END
This will loop and insert the data from 2010-2015 for those date ranges and add a extra column on the end so you can call the data and order by year if you want like this
SELECT * FROM #mydata order by YEAR
Hopefully some part of this helps!
FROM THE COMMENT BELOW
SELECT *
FROM my_data
WHERE DAY(RIGHT(date, 5)) between DAY(11-20) and DAY(12-15)
The reason '11-20' doesn't work is because its a character string which is why you have to input it between ' ' What the Month() function does is take whatever you put between the () and convert it to an integer. Which is why you're not getting anything back using the method in the first answer, the '-Year' from the table date field is being added into the numeric value where your value is just being converted from 11-20 you can see by using these queries
SELECT MONTH(11-20) --Returns 12
SELECT MONTH(11-20-2015) -- Returns 6
SELECT MONTH(11-20-2014) -- Returns 6
Using RIGHT(Date, 5) you only get Month-day, then you date the day value of that so DAY(RIGHT(DATE, 5) and you should get something that in theory should fall within those date ranges despite the year. However I'm not sure how accurate the data will be, and its a lot of work just to not add an additional 8 characters in your original query.
Since you only care about month and day, but not year, you need to use DATEPART to split up the date. Try this:
select *
from my_data
WHERE 1=1
AND (DATEPART(m, date) >= 11 AND DATEPART(d,date) >= 20)
AND (DATEPART(m, date) <= 12 AND DATEPART(d,date) <= 15)
My table myTab has the column startDate, which has the datatype "DATE". The data in this column are stored like dd.mm.yyyy.
Now I'm trying to get data with this query:
SELECT * FROM myTab WHERE startDate like '%01.2015"
Somehow it doesn't work and I don't know why.
Hope someone can help.
To make a text search on the date you would have to convert the date to text.
It's more efficient if you calculate the first and last date for what you want to find and get everything between them. That way it's done as numeric comparisons instead of a text pattern match, and it can make use of an index if there is one:
SELECT * FROM myTab WHERE startDate >= DATE '2015-01-01' AND startDate < DATE '2015-02-01'
SELECT * FROM myTab WHERE TO_CHAR(startDate,'dd.mm.yyyy') LIKE '%01.2015'
If the field type is "DATE" then the value isn't stored as a string, it's a number managed by Oracle, so you have to convert it to a string:
SELECT * FROM myTab WHERE to_char(startDate, 'MM.YYYY') = '01.2015';
You can also use date ranges in SQL queries:
SELECT * FROM myTab
WHERE startDate
BETWEEN to_date('01.01.2015', 'DD.MM.YYYY')
AND to_date('31.01.2015', 'DD.MM.YYYY');
Regarding you actual question "Somehow it doesn't work and I don't know why."
Oracle make an implicit conversion from DATE to VARHCAR2, however it uses the default NLS_DATE_FORMAT which is probably different to what you use in your query.
The data in this column are stored like dd.mm.yyyy.
Oracle does not store date in the format you see. It stores it internally in proprietary format in 7 bytes with each byte storing different components of the datetime value.
WHERE startDate like '%01.2015"
You are comparing a DATE with a STRING, which is pointless.
From performance point of view, you should use a date range condition so that if there is any regular INDEX on the date column, it would be used.
SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE date_column BETWEEN DATE '2015-01-01' AND DATE '2015-02-01'
To understand why a Date range condition is better in terms of performance, have a look at my answer here.
I solved my problem that way. Thank you for suggestions for improvements. Example in C#.
string dd, mm, aa, trc, data;
dd = nData.Text.Substring(0, 2);
mm = nData.Text.Substring(3, 2);
aa = nData.Text.Substring(6, 4);
trc = "-";
data = aa + trc + mm + trc + dd;
"Select * From bdPedidos Where Data Like '%" + data + "%'";
To provide a more detailed answer and address this https://stackoverflow.com/a/42429550/1267661 answer's issue.
In Oracle a column of type "date" is not a number nor a string, it's a "datetime" value with year, month, day, hour, minute and seconds.
The default time is always midnight "00:00:00"
The query:
Select * From bdPedidos Where Data Like '%" + data + "%'"
won't work in all circumstances because a date column is not a string, using "like" forces Oracle to do a conversion from date value to string value.
The string value may be year-month-day-time or month-day-year-time or day-month-year-time, that all depends how a particular Oracle instance has set the parameter NLS_DATE_FORMAT to show dates as strings.
The right way to cover all the possible times in a day is:
Select *
From bdPedidos
Where Data between to_date('" + data + " 00:00:00','yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss')
and to_date('" + data + " 23:59:59','yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss')
SELECT * FROM myTab WHERE startDate like '%-%-2015';
This will search for all dates in 2015. If this doesn't work, try:
SELECT * FROM myTab WHERE startDate like '%-%-15';
I'm building a query against a DB2 database, connecting through the IBM Client Access ODBC driver. I want to pull fields that are less than 6 days old, based on the field 'a.ofbkddt'... the problem is that this field is not a date field, but rather a DECIMAL field, formatted as YYYYMMDD.
I was able to break down the decimal field by wrapping it in a call to char(), then using substr() to pull the year, month and day fields. I then formatted this as a date, and called the days() function, which gives a number that I can perform arithmetic on.
Here's an example of the query:
select
days( current date) -
days( substr(char(a.ofbkddt),1,4) concat '-' -- YYYY-
concat substr(char(a.ofbkddt),5,2) concat '-' -- MM-
concat substr(char(a.ofbkddt),7,2) ) as difference, -- DD
a.ofbkddt as mydate
from QS36F.ASDF a
This yields the following:
difference mydate
2402 20050402
2025 20060306
...
4 20110917
3 20110918
2 20110919
1 20110920
This is what I expect to see... however when I use the same logic in the where clause of my query:
select
days( current date) -
days( substr(char(a.ofbkddt),1,4) concat '-' -- YYYY-
concat substr(char(a.ofbkddt),5,2) concat '-' -- MM-
concat substr(char(a.ofbkddt),7,2) ) as difference, -- DD
a.ofbkddt as mydate
from QS36F.ASDF a
where
(
days( current date) -
days( substr(char(a.ofbkddt),1,4) concat '-' -- YYYY-
concat substr(char(a.ofbkddt),5,2) concat '-' -- MM
concat substr(char(a.ofbkddt),7,2) ) -- DD
) < 6
I don't get any results back from my query, even though it's clear that I am getting date differences of as little as 1 day (obviously less than the 6 days that I'm requesting in the where clause).
My first thought was that the return type of days() might not be an integer, causing the comparison to fail... according to the documentation for days() found at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/index.htm?info/db2/rbafzmst02.htm, it returns a bigint. I cast the difference to integer, just to be safe, but this had no effect.
You're going about this backwards. Rather than using a function on every single value in the table (so you can compare it to the date), you should pre-compute the difference in the date. It's costing you resources to run the function on every row - you'd save a lot if you could just do it against CURRENT_DATE (it'd maybe save you even more if you could do it in your application code, but I realize this might not be possible). Your dates are in a sortable format, after all.
The query looks like so:
SELECT ofbkddt as myDate
FROM QS36F.ASDF
WHERE myDate > ((int(substr(char(current_date - 6 days, ISO), 1, 4)) * 10000) +
(int(substr(char(current_date - 6 days, ISO), 6, 2)) * 100) +
(int(substr(char(current_date - 6 days, ISO), 9, 2))))
Which, when run against your sample datatable, yields the following:
myDate
=============
20110917
20110918
20110919
20110920
You might also want to look into creating a calendar table, and add these dates as one of the columns.
What if you try a common table expression?
WITH A AS
(
select
days( current date) -
days( substr(char(a.ofbkddt),1,4) concat '-' -- YYYY-
concat substr(char(a.ofbkddt),5,2) concat '-' -- MM-
concat substr(char(a.ofbkddt),7,2) ) as difference, -- DD
a.ofbkddt as mydate
from QS36F.ASDF a
)
SELECT
*
FROM
a
WHERE
difference < 6
Does your data have some nulls in a.ofbkddt? Maybe this is causing some funny behaviour in how db2 is evaluating the less than operation.