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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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);
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>
Unable to retrieve records properly with the formatted date values, need select query with right date format to get all records inserted per day
I have a date string like this in my script -
dateString :='26-MAR-20 05.00.00.00000000 AM';
I want to add 0.313 minutes to this date value. And also I want to
increment it to the next day something like this- '27-MAR-20
05.00.00.00000000 AM';
I tried this
dateString :='26-MAR-20 05.00.00.00000000 AM';
dateString :=to_char(dateField,'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS.FF');
dateField := to_timestamp(dateString, 'DD/MON/YYYY HH24:MI:SS.FF') + 0.313 * INTERVAL '1' MINUTE;
I can see the output and inserted these values into the DB but
unable to retrieve records properly with these formatted date values..
I suspect it might be to do with the timestamp fields
When I run this query -
select *from rptallexceptions where exceptiontime between '27-MAR-2020 04.00.00.000000000 AM' and '28-MAR-2020 03.59.00.000000000 AM' order by exceptiontime desc;
--- this one gives 3833 records but expected is 4600
it shows only the records on 27th march., records inserted with timestamp containing 28th march are not retrieved..
select *from rptallexceptions where exceptiontime between '28-MAR-2020 04.00.00.000000000 AM' and '29-MAR-2020 03.59.00.000000000 AM' order by exceptiontime desc;
--- this one returns '0' rows
Excerpt from the script:
cnt :=cnt +1;
dateString :=to_char(dateField,'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS.FF');
-- add time difference for each exception.
dateField := to_timestamp(dateString, 'DD/MON/YYYY HH24:MI:SS.FF') + 0.313 * INTERVAL '1' MINUTE;
-- after n*4600 exceptions,update date to next date.
IF REMAINDER(cnt,exceptionsPerDay) = 0 THEN
dateField := to_timestamp(dateField + 1,'DD/MON/YYYY HH24:MI:SS.FF');
END IF;
The way I see it, your problem is that you're comparing timestamps to strings.
Sample table:
SQL> create table test as
2 select to_timestamp('27.03.2020 04:00:00:000000', 'dd.mm.yyyy hh24:mi:ss:ff6') datum, 'A' name from dual
3 union all
4 select to_timestamp('28.03.2020 15:23:00:000000', 'dd.mm.yyyy hh24:mi:ss:ff6') datum, 'A' name from dual;
Table created.
Query should use timestamp, not string:
SQL> select *
2 from test
3 where datum between to_timestamp('25.03.2020 12:00:00:000000am', 'dd.mm.yyyy hh:mi:ss:ff6am') --> timestamp
4 and to_timestamp('28.03.2020 12:00:00:000000am', 'dd.mm.yyyy hh:mi:ss:ff6am'); --> timestamp
DATUM N
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- -
27.03.20 04:00:00,000000000 A
SQL>
You were kind of "lucky" (though, one might call it bad luck as your query didn't fail, but it produced wrong results, according to number of rows being returned) for not getting an error as my database raises (due to different NLS settings):
SQL> select *
2 from test
3 where datum between '25.03.2020 12:00:00:000000am' --> string
4 and '28.03.2020 12:00:00:000000am'; --> string
where datum between '25.03.2020 12:00:00:000000am'
*
ERROR at line 3:
ORA-01830: date format picture ends before converting entire input string
SQL>
Strings are handled differently than dates (or timestamps), or numbers. Maybe you'll see the difference clearly in this example:
SQL> with test (col) as
2 (select '1' from dual union all
3 select '9' from dual union all
4 select '20' from dual
5 )
6 select *
7 from test
8 where col < '9';
CO
--
1
20
SQL>
20 < 9? Yes, if those are strings. The same might have happened to you. Try with proper datatype.
When you do:
dateString :=to_char(dateField,'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS.FF');
you are converting whatever is the initial value of dateField to a string; but it looks like that has has not been set yet, so you end up with an empty string (which is the same as null). Your original value of dateString is never being used.
If you skip that and just do:
dateString :='26-MAR-20 05.00.00.00000000 AM';
dateField := to_timestamp(dateString, 'DD/MON/YYYY HH24:MI:SS.FF') + 0.313 * INTERVAL '1' MINUTE;
then you are converting the 2-digit year 20 with a YYYY format element, which will turn it into year 0020, not 2020; but you also don't have AM in the format model, so it will get ORA-01830 anyway, and have HH24 instead of HH. I think your to_char() is attempting to 'correct' the string format, but that's not a great approach.
If you can't control the starting string format then the model has to match that:
dateString :='26-MAR-20 05.00.00.00000000 AM';
dateField := to_timestamp(dateString, 'DD-MON-RR HH:MI:SS.FF AM') + 0.313 * INTERVAL '1' MINUTE;
which gives dateField a value of 2020-03-26 05:00:18.780000.
Later on you do:
dateField := to_timestamp(dateField + 1,'DD/MON/YYYY HH24:MI:SS.FF');
which is also doing an implicit conversion of dateField + 1 - which is converted to a date, incidentally as timestamp + number is a date, not a timestamp - to a string; which will use your NLS_DATE_FORMAT. Presumably that is something like 'DD-MON-YYYY'.
So stepping through that:
dateField + 1 => date '2020-03-27 05:00:18' (losing fractional seconds)
implicit to_char(dateField + 1) => string '27-Mar-2020' (losing time)
to_timestamp(to_char(dateField + 1), '...') => timestamp '2020-03-27 00:00:00.000000' (with time at midnight).
So your between is, at best going to find records between 2020-03-26 05:00:18.780000 and 2020-03-27 00:00:00.0000000 - so it won't pick up any records later than midnight on the 27th.
Don't convert to and from strings when you don't need to; leave data in its native data type (timestamp in this case) and use direct manipulation with intervals.
Using between isn't ideal anyway, because it is inclusive; it would be better to end up with:
exceptiontime >= timestamp '2020-03-26 05:00:18.780000'
and exceptionTime < timestamp '2020-03-27 05:00:18.780000'
I have date in following format a_time=01-06-2020 15:28:06 & b_time=01-06-2020 15:39:00 in table t_mst
and i want to convert diff of given values in queries in minutes
select (extract( day from diff )*24*60*60 +
extract( hour from diff )*60*60 +
extract( minute from diff )*60 +
extract( second from diff ))/60 total_Minutes
from(select b_time - a_time diff
from t_mst Where a_time between (trunc(sysdate, 'mm')) and (sysdate))
But getting Error "Invalid extract field for extract source"
any idea would be appreciated.
The error you show means that b_time - a_time worked. Which means they are in date (or perhaps timestamp) data type; that is good.
Then, they must be date; if they were timestamp then the difference would be interval data type, and you can indeed extract time elements from interval. So, the error message suggests that the data type of a_time and b_time is indeed date.
Now: In Oracle, the difference between two dates is a number (in days); you can't extract time elements from a number. Instead, consider that the difference is already a number of days (including a fractional part); to convert it to minutes, you only have to multiply it by 1440 - and then round the result, if needed.
You have tagged with 3 databases and the code is for postgreSQL. I assume you meant, postgreSQL:
select (extract( epoch from age(a_time, b_time)/60) total_Minutes
from t_mst
--Where a_time between (trunc(sysdate, 'mm')) and (sysdate))
If you need it casted to int:
select (extract( epoch from age(a_time, b_time)/60)::int total_Minutes
from t_mst
PS: Not sure you meant plSQL or PL\pgSQL.
If b_timeand a_time data types are DATE you can simply run
select (b_time - a_time) * 24*60 AS total_Minutes
from t_mst
Where a_time between trunc(sysdate, 'mm') and sysdate
In case they are TIMESTAMP data type you have to extract the values, e.g. like this:
select
EXTRACT(DAY FROM (b_time - a_time))*24*60
+ EXTRACT(HOUR FROM (b_time - a_time))*60
+ EXTRACT(MINUTE FROM (b_time - a_time))
+ EXTRACT(SECOND FROM (b_time - a_time))/60
AS total_Minutes
from t_mst
Where a_time between trunc(sysdate, 'mm') and sysdate
I've got two sets of dates being passed into a query and I would like to find all the months/years between both sets of dates.
When I try this:
WITH CTE_Dates (cte_date) AS (
SELECT cast(date '2014-01-27' as date) from dual
UNION ALL
SELECT cast(ADD_MONTHS(TRUNC(cte_date, 'MONTH'),1) as date)
FROM CTE_Dates
WHERE ( TO_DATE(ADD_MONTHS(TRUNC(cte_date, 'MONTH'), 1)) BETWEEN TO_DATE ('27-01-2014','DD-MM-YYYY') AND TO_DATE ('27-04-2014','DD-MM-YYYY'))
OR
( TO_DATE(ADD_MONTHS(TRUNC(cte_date, 'MONTH'), 1)) BETWEEN TRUNC(TO_DATE('27-11-2014','DD-MM-YYYY'), 'MONTH') AND TO_DATE ('27-01-2015','DD-MM-YYYY'))
)
SELECT * from CTE_Dates
I get:
27-JAN-14
01-FEB-14
01-MAR-14
01-APR-14
I would also want to get:
01-NOV-14
01-DEC-14
01-JAN-15
It looks like the OR portion of the WHERE clause gets ignored.
Suggestions on how to create this query?
Thanks
Cory
The problem with what you have now (aside from extra cast() and to_date() calls) is that on the fourth iteration both the conditions are false so the recursion stops; there's nothing to make it skip a bit and pick up again, otherwise it would continue forever. I don't think you can achieve both ranges within the recursion.
You can put the latest date you want inside the recursive part, and then filter the two ranges you want afterwards:
WITH CTE_Dates (cte_date) AS (
SELECT date '2014-01-27' from dual
UNION ALL
SELECT ADD_MONTHS(TRUNC(cte_date, 'MONTH'), 1)
FROM CTE_Dates
WHERE ADD_MONTHS(TRUNC(cte_date, 'MONTH'), 1) <= date '2015-01-27'
)
SELECT * from CTE_Dates
WHERE cte_date BETWEEN date '2014-01-27' AND date '2014-04-27'
OR cte_date BETWEEN date '2014-11-27' AND date '2015-01-27';
CTE_DATE
---------
27-JAN-14
01-FEB-14
01-MAR-14
01-APR-14
01-DEC-14
01-JAN-15
6 rows selected
You can replace the hard-coded values with your pairs of start and end dates. If the ranges might overlap or the second range could be (or end) before the first one, you could pick the higher date:
WHERE ADD_MONTHS(TRUNC(cte_date, 'MONTH'), 1)
<= greatest(date '2015-01-27', date '2014-04-27')
... though that only makes sense with variables, not fixed values.