In Oracle SQL Developer, I have a table called t1 who have two columns col1 defined as NUMBER(19,0) and col2 defined as TIMESTAMP(3).
I have these rows
col1 col2
1 03/01/22 12:00:00,000000000
2 03/01/22 13:00:00,000000000
3 26/11/21 10:27:11,750000000
4 26/11/21 10:27:59,606000000
5 16/12/21 11:47:04,105000000
6 16/12/21 12:29:27,101000000
My sysdate looks like this:
select sysdate from dual;
SYSDATE
03/03/22
I want to create a stored procedure (SP) which will delete rows older than 2 months and displayed message n rows are deleted
But when i execute this statement
select * from t1 where to_date(TRUNC(col2), 'DD/MM/YY') < add_months(sysdate, -2);
I don't get the first 2 rows of my t1 table. I get more than 2 rows
1 03/01/22 12:00:00,000000000
2 03/01/22 13:00:00,000000000
How can i get these rows and deleted it please ?
In Oracle, a DATE data type is a binary data type consisting of 7 bytes (century, year-of-century, month, day, hour, minute and second). It ALWAYS has all of those components and it is NEVER stored with a particular formatting (such as DD/MM/RR).
Your client application (i.e. SQL Developer) may choose to DISPLAY the binary DATE value in a human readable manner by formatting it as DD/MM/RR but that is a function of the client application you are using and not the database.
When you show the entire value:
SELECT TO_CHAR(ADD_MONTHS(sysdate, -2), 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS') AS dt FROM DUAL;
Then it outputs (depending on time zone):
DT
2022-01-03 10:11:28
If you compare that to your values then you can see that 2022-01-03 12:00:00 is not "more than 2 months ago" so it will not be matched.
What you appear to want is not "more than 2 months ago" but "equal to or more than 2 months, ignoring the time component, ago"; which you can get using:
SELECT *
FROM t1
WHERE col2 < add_months(TRUNC(sysdate), -2) + INTERVAL '1' DAY;
or
SELECT *
FROM t1
WHERE TRUNC(col2) <= add_months(TRUNC(sysdate), -2);
(Note: the first query would use an index on col2 but the second query would not; it would require a function-based index on TRUNC(col2) instead.)
Also, don't use TO_DATE on a column that is already a DATE or TIMESTAMP data type. TO_DATE takes a string as the first argument and not a DATE or TIMESTAMP so Oracle will perform an implicit conversion using TO_CHAR and if the format models do not match then you will introduce errors (and since any user can set their own date format in their session parameters at any time then you may get errors for one user that are not present for other users and is very hard to debug).
db<>fiddle here
Perhaps just:
select *
from t1
where col2 < add_months(sysdate, -2);
Related
I am trying to separate the time and date in one column to be independent off each other. I am new at writing scripts
this is my query:
select
*
from
[tablename]
where
to_date([column_name]) in ( '15-Jun-2021', '16-Jun-2021' )
and
to_char([column_name],'dd-Mon-yyyy HH:MM:ss') < '15-Jun-2021 19:54:30'
The way you put it, it would be
select *
from your_table
where date_column >= date '2021-06-15'
and date_column < to_date('15.06.2021 19:54:30', 'dd.mm.yyyy hh24:mi:ss')
because
date_column should be of date datatype. If it isn't, you'll have problems of many kinds in the future. Therefore,
don't to_date it, it is already a date
don't to_char it either, because you'd be comparing strings and get unexpected result. Use that function when you want to nicely display the result
the second condition you wrote makes the first one questionable. If date_column is less than value you wrote, then you can omit date '2021-06-16' from the first condition because you won't get any rows for that date anyway
date literal (date '2021-06-15') sets time to midnight, so condition I wrote should return rows you want
SQL> select date '2021-06-15' first,
2 to_date('15.06.2021 19:54:30', 'dd.mm.yyyy hh24:mi:ss') second
3 from dual;
FIRST SECOND
------------------- -------------------
15.06.2021 00:00:00 15.06.2021 19:54:30
SQL>
How can I get the Year to Date (YTD) count of a certain data using Oracle query?
Assume that we are interested in summing the total number of vouchers filed since the beginning of the current year.
This is the query I came up with
WITH cteDAYSCOUNT AS (SELECT TO_NUMBER(TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'DDD'))
FROM dual)
SELECT COUNT(VOUCHER_FILED_DATE), SYSDATE AS "AS OF" FROM CLAIMS
WHERE VOUCHER_FILED_DATE > sysdate - cteDAYSCOUNT;
This part of it returns the number of days since the beginning of the year
WITH cteDAYSCOUNT AS (SELECT TO_NUMBER(TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'DDD')) FROM dual)
And this part attempts to use the sysdate - {number of days} to calculate the count
SELECT COUNT(VOUCHER_FILED_DATE), SYSDATE AS "AS OF"
FROM CONTINUED_CLAIMS WHERE VOUCHER_FILED_DATE > sysdate - cteDAYSCOUNT;
But the problem is the although cteDAYSCOUNT holds the number of days since the year starts, it is not being recognized as a number, so it's throws an error
Is there a better query for calculating YTD count or a fix of the above query?
I'm not sure I'm following you.
Query you posted is incomplete; CTE lacks in column name, while FROM clause misses join with the CTE. Therefore, your query can't work at all.
If it is fixed, then:
SQL> WITH
2 ctedayscount (ctedayscount) AS
3 -- this is yours
4 (SELECT TO_NUMBER (TO_CHAR (SYSDATE, 'DDD')) FROM DUAL),
5 claims (voucher_filed_date) AS
6 -- this is my CTE, so that query would actually return something
7 (SELECT DATE '2021-01-15' FROM DUAL)
8 -- final SELECT; you're missing JOIN with CTEDAYSCOUNT
9 SELECT COUNT (voucher_filed_date), SYSDATE AS "AS OF"
10 FROM claims CROSS JOIN ctedayscount
11 WHERE voucher_filed_date > SYSDATE - ctedayscount;
COUNT(VOUCHER_FILED_DATE) AS OF
------------------------- ----------
1 09.02.2021
SQL>
So, it works.
Furthermore, you said:
But the problem is the although cteDAYSCOUNT holds the number of days since the year starts, it is not being recognized as a number, so it's throws an error
How do you know it isn't a NUMBER? Which error is it? It is difficult to debug an unknown error. Could it, perhaps, be that CLAIMS table's voucher_filed_date datatype is something different than DATE (such as VARCHAR2) and contains data which Oracle can't implicitly convert to DATE so WHERE clause (my line #11) fails?
Or is the main problem the fact that you just missed to join CTEDAYSCOUNT with CLAIMS (which I already mentioned)?
I need to query 2 tables, one contains a TIMESTAMP(6) column, other contains a DATE column. I want to write a select statement that prints both values and diff between these two in third column.
SB_BATCH.B_CREATE_DT - timestamp
SB_MESSAGE.M_START_TIME - date
SELECT SB_BATCH.B_UID, SB_BATCH.B_CREATE_DT, SB_MESSAGE.M_START_TIME,
to_date(to_char(SB_BATCH.B_CREATE_DT), 'DD-MON-RR HH24:MI:SS') as time_in_minutes
FROM SB_BATCH, SB_MESSAGE
WHERE
SB_BATCH.B_UID = SB_MESSAGE.M_B_UID;
Result:
Error report -
SQL Error: ORA-01830: date format picture ends before converting entire input string
01830. 00000 - "date format picture ends before converting entire input string"
You can subtract two timestamps to get an INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND, from which you calculate how many minutes elapsed between the two timestamps. In order to convert SB_MESSAGE.M_START_TIME to a timestamp you can use CAST.
Note that I have also removed your implicit table join with an explicit INNER JOIN, moving the join condition to the ON clause.
SELECT t.B_UID,
t.B_CREATE_DT,
t.M_START_TIME,
EXTRACT(DAY FROM t.diff)*24*60 +
EXTRACT(HOUR FROM t.diff)*60 +
EXTRACT(MINUTE FROM t.diff) +
ROUND(EXTRACT(SECOND FROM t.diff) / 60.0) AS diff_in_minutes
FROM
(
SELECT SB_BATCH.B_UID,
SB_BATCH.B_CREATE_DT,
SB_MESSAGE.M_START_TIME,
SB_BATCH.B_CREATE_DT - CAST(SB_MESSAGE.M_START_TIME AS TIMESTAMP) AS diff
FROM SB_BATCH
INNER JOIN SB_MESSAGE
ON SB_BATCH.B_UID = SB_MESSAGE.M_B_UID
) t
Convert the timestamp to a date using cast(... as date). Then take the difference between the dates, which is a number - expressed in days, so if you want it in minutes, multiply by 24*60. Then round the result as needed. I made up a small example below to isolate just the steps needed to answer your question. (Note that your query has many other problems, for example you didn't actually take a difference of anything anywhere. If you need help with your query in general, please post it as a separate question.)
select ts, dt, round( (sysdate - cast(ts as date))*24*60, 2) as time_diff_in_minutes
from (select to_timestamp('2016-08-23 03:22:44.734000', 'yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss.ff') as ts,
sysdate as dt from dual )
;
TS DT TIME_DIFF_IN_MINUTES
-------------------------------- ------------------- --------------------
2016-08-23 03:22:44.734000000 2016-08-23 08:09:15 286.52
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I would like to insert data to db as time, not date. If I use to_date('2012-08-31 07:39:33', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS') it adds date too.
If I use to_date('09:34:00', 'HH24:MI:SS') it adds year, month, day as well, from nowhere :|
Later I need to get rows where time is between x and y, not taking in account the year, month or day. How do I do that?
thanks
As an alternative to the date solution Dave shows, you could use an interval data type for the column:
create table t42(id number, t interval day to second);
insert into t42 (id, t) values(123, to_dsinterval('0 07:39:33'));
insert into t42 (id, t) values(456, to_dsinterval('0 09:34:00'));
select id
from t42
where t between to_dsinterval('0 07:00:00') and to_dsinterval('0 07:59:59');
ID
----------
123
Displaying intervals is a little awkward as they don't have format models, but see this question for some ideas if needed. If you only use them for filtering then that may not be an issue at all.
A DATE type always includes the date component.
One option is to continue using DATE and write your code to ignore the date component. In order to make queries on the time efficient, you might want to create a function-based index on something like TO_CHAR( date_field, 'HH24:MI:SS' ) and use that expression in your queries.
Alternatively, you could use a NUMBER field to store the number of seconds since midnight, and write your queries in terms of that.
you can use number column type and insert value as
INSERT INTO table_name (nTime)
VALUES (date - trunc(date));
and then select values
select *
from table_name t
where t.nTime between (10 / 24 + 15 / 24 / 60) and (12 / 24 + 30 / 24 / 60) --between 10:15 and 12:30
I have dates in this format in my database "01-APR-12" and the column is a DATE type.
My SQL statement looks like this:
SELECT DISTINCT c.customerno, c.lname, c.fname
FROM customer c, sales s
WHERE c.customerno = s.customerno AND s.salestype = 1
AND (s.salesdate BETWEEN '01-APR-12' AND '31-APR-12');
When I try to do it that way, I get this error -- ORA-01839: date not valid for month specified.
Can I even use the BETWEEN keyword with how the date is setup in the database?
If not, is there another way I can get the output of data that is in that date range without having to fix the data in the database?
Thanks!
April has 30 days not 31.
Change
SELECT DISTINCT c.customerno, c.lname, c.fname
FROM customer c, sales s
WHERE c.customerno = s.customerno AND s.salestype = 1
AND (s.salesdate BETWEEN '01-APR-12' AND '31-APR-12');
to
SELECT DISTINCT c.customerno, c.lname, c.fname
FROM customer c, sales s
WHERE c.customerno = s.customerno AND s.salestype = 1
AND (s.salesdate BETWEEN '01-APR-12' AND '30-APR-12');
and you should be good to go.
In case the dates you are checking for range from 1st day of a month to the last day of a month then you may modify the query to avoid the case where you have to explicitly check the LAST day of the month
SELECT DISTINCT c.customerno, c.lname, c.fname
FROM customer c, sales s
WHERE c.customerno = s.customerno
AND s.salestype = 1 AND (s.salesdate BETWEEN '01-APR-12' AND LAST_DAY(TO_DATE('APR-12', 'MON-YY'));
The LAST_DAY function will provide the last day of the month.
The other answers are missing out on something important and will not return the correct results. Dates have date and time components. If your salesdate column is in fact a date that includes time, you will miss out on any sales that happened on April 30 unless they occurred exactly at midnight.
Here's an example:
create table date_temp (temp date);
insert into date_temp values(to_date('01-APR-2014 15:12:00', 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS'));
insert into date_temp values(to_date('30-APR-2014 15:12:00', 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS'));
table DATE_TEMP created.
1 rows inserted.
1 rows inserted.
select * from date_temp where temp between '01-APR-2014' and '30-APR-2014';
Query Result: 01-APR-14
If you want to get all records from April that includes those with time-components in the date fields, you should use the first day of the next month as the second side of the between clause:
select * from date_temp where temp between '01-APR-2014' and '01-MAY-2014';
01-APR-14
30-APR-14