Requirement: I need to sort an input file based on Date.
The date is in YYYYMMDD format starting at 56th Position in the flat file.
Now, the I am trying to write a sort card which writes all the records that have the date(YYYYMMDD) in the past 7 Days.
Example: My job is running on 20181007, it should fetch all the records that have date in between 20181001 to 20181007.
Thanks in advance.
In terms of DFSort you can use the following filter to select the current date as a relative value. For instance:
OUTFIL INCLUDE=(56,8,CH,GE,DATE1-7)
There are several definitions for Dates in various formats. I assume that since you are referring to a flat file the date is in a character format and not zoned decimal or other representation.
For DFSort here is a reference to the include statement
Similar constructs exist for other sort products. Without specifics about the product your using this is unfortunately a generic answer.
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I have to get the max payment date on an invoice and I am having trouble with the date format. I do not need the max in this formula as I am using the format in a reporting tool that is pulling the max from what it finds for me.
Using "to_char({datefield},'mm/dd/yyyy')" works for displaying that date the way we would like BUT when you use summary function MAX it does not pull the correct date because it is looking at a string and not a date (it will think 12/3/21 is larger than 3/2/22).
Another thing I have tried is trunc - "trunc({datefield})" which gives us the correct max date but it changes the formatting. For example if the date prior to the formula being applied is "8/12/21 12:00:00:000" the trunc formula will display it as 12-08-21 which is horribly wrong.
Long story short is I need a way to change a date/time to date with the format of 'mmmm/dd/yyyy' WITHOUT converting it to a string with something like to_char. Thank you!!!!
A DATE is a binary data type consisting of 7 bytes representing: century, year-of-century, month, day, hour, minute and second. It ALWAYS has all of those components and it is NEVER stored with any (human-readable) format.
What you are seeing when a date is displayed is the client application you are using to access the database making a decision to be helpful to you, the user, and display the binary DATE provided by the database in a human-readable format.
If you want to change how the DATE is displayed then you either need to:
Change the settings on the client application that controls how it formats dates when it displays them to you; or
Change the data-type so that it is no longer a DATE (which does not have a format) to a data type where the values of the date can be formatted (such as a string). You can do this using TO_CHAR.
If you want to find the maximum then do it BEFORE applying the formatting:
SELECT TO_CHAR(MAX({datefield}),'mm/dd/yyyy')
FROM your_table;
The date is in the correct format ie YYYY-MM-DD. If I sort just on date it sorts to correct order however if i sort on another field first with date the second criteria it is sorted correctly on first criteria but the date is sorted by DD first MM second and YYYY last. Out of curiosity I tried the same file in Excel which sorted correctly. Can anyone explain the difference and how to get a correct sort in Calc? Using 2 criteria in Calc does not work. I tried sorting on date first and species second. Date order was correct but species were jumbled.
The data is a spreadsheet download of an online data base where we record squirrel and other species sightings in the forest. The entries are not in date or species order. There are many fields for each entry but I am trying to sort first to species and then each species to be in date order. It is for an animation using Time Manager.
I have re-asked the question with edit because the question was closed, for what reason I don't know.
The sort does work correctly, tried again and all sorted as it should. Tried to reproduce strange date order but can't. Have no idea what went wrong originally.
I'm stuck with sorting and showing the correct date in Xpages.
It is saved in format "dd.MM.yyyy" and it's a string.
Now why it's a string and formated that way, is because my boss has special wishes. And when I want to sort it from the newest date to older it does something like this:
26.05.2015
24.06.2014
22.04.2015
21.04.2015
20.03.2014
It starts sorting by day.
Is there a way to make it sort it like it should?
I see that i can write a Computed value to Sort column in view column header for date. But i don't know how to even start.
Change the underlying Notes view to get your date column into right order.
Convert the date strings to real date values in views column formula. Assuming your field is called DateText then your formula would be
#Date(#ToNumber(#Right(DateText; 4));
#ToNumber(#Middle(DateText; 3; 2));
#ToNumber(#Left(DateText; 2)))
It would be easier to use just #ToTime(DateText) but this can fail depending on server's local settings. Your date string format would work for a server with German locale settings but not for US. That's why is my suggested solution "safer".
If the date time value doesn't solve your problem and you do not transform your date via #Text (as mentioned in the comments) then create another (hidden) column BEFORE your column that should be displayed. Make this a true date (from your item), sort it and unsort the column to display.
Otherwise use this formula in the newly created sorted column:
#Text(#Year(yourDate))+"-"+#Right("00"+#Text(#Month(yourDate));2)+"-"+#Right("00"+#Text(#Day(yourDate));2)
For few columns from the source i.e .csv file, we are having values like 1:52:00, 14:45:00.
I am supposed to load to the Oracle table.
Which data type should I choose in Target as well as source?
Should i be doing any thing in the expression transformation?
Use SQLLDR to load the data into database with the format described as in the link
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/sql_elements004.htm
ie.'HH24:MI:SS'
Oracle does not support time-only values, it supports dates (with a time component).
You have a few options:
Store the value as a string, perhaps providing a leading zero for
the hour.
Store the value as the number of seconds (or minutes) past midnight.
Store the value as the time component of some arbitrarily defined date, for
example 0001-JAN-01 01:52:00 and 0001-Jan-01 14:45:00. Tell your report writers to ignore the date portion of the value.
Your source datatype will be string(8). Use LPAD to add leading zeroes.
I have last_update_date column defined as DATE field
I want to get time in milliseconds.
Currently I have:
TO_CHAR(last_update_date,'YYYY-DD-MM hh:mi:ss am')
But I want to get milliseconds as well.
I googled a bit and think DATE fields will not have milliseconds. only TIMESTAMP fields will.
Is there any way to get milliseconds? I do not have option to change data type for the field.
DATE fields on Oracle only store the data down to a second so there is no way to provide anything more precise than that. If you want more precision, you must use another type such as TIMESTAMP.
Here is a link to another SO question regarding Oracle date and time precision.
As RC says, the DATE type only supports a granularity down to the second.
If converting to TIMESTAMP is truly not an option then how about the addition of another numerical column that just holds the milliseconds?
This option would be more cumbersome to deal with than a TIMESTAMP column but it could be workable if converting the type is not possible.
In a similar situation where I couldn't change the fields in a table, (Couldn't afford to 'break' third party software,) but needed sub-second precision, I added a 1:1 supplemental table, and an after insert trigger on the original table to post the timestamp into the supplemental table.
If you only need to know the ORDER of records being added within the same second, you could do the same thing, only using a sequence as a data source for the supplemental field.