Unixtimestamp time difference in SQL Query - time

I want to get time difference with UNIXTIMESTAMPin SQL. I want to retrieve data from database that queries inserted reports like week, month. I am inserting with UNIXTIMESTAMP. So I want to get the difference between CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and query inserted date.

you would need to convert the UNIXTIMESTAMP to date time format before you can find the difference. here is a post from oracle community to convert UNIXTIMESTAMP to date time value
https://community.oracle.com/thread/302756?start=0&tstart=0

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Oracle TRUNC function doesn't work in perl

I try to insert the created field in my_table. The created field has a datetime type. In my_table the field my_created has a date format. So I try to TRUNC the created field. However I'm getting the error ORA-01830: date format picture ends before converting entire input stringwhile inserting the truncated value. It seems, that the time is still there but is reset to 00:00. how can I get only the date without time? It happens only in perl. I'm getting only date in toad.
Very simplified code looks like:
my $SQL="SELECT
TRUNC(CREATED),
FROM
DBA_OBJECTS";
my $sth = $db->prepare($SQL);
$sth->execute();
my $date = $sth->fetchrow();
$SQL = "INSERT INTO MY_TABLE
(MY_CREATED)
VALUES (?)";
my $stmt = $dbh_master->prepare($SQL);
$stmt->execute($date);
EDIT:
I found an ugly workaround and I'm executing it like this:
$stmt->execute(substr($date, 0, 10));
However maybe someone has a nicer solution.
How can I get only the date without time?
In Oracle, a DATE is a binary data type that is composed of 7 bytes representing: century, year-of-century, month, day, hour, minute and second. It ALWAYS has those binary components so if you want an Oracle DATE data type then you cannot get it without a time.
The Oracle DATE data type was released with Oracle version 2 in 1979 and predates the ANSI/ISO standard (of 1986, where a DATE does not have a time component) and Oracle has maintained backwards compatibility with their previous data types rather than adopting the ANSI standard.
If you use the TRUNC(date_value, format_model) function then it will set the binary components of the DATE, up to the specified format model, to the minimum (0 for hours, minutes and seconds, 1 for days and months) but it will NOT give you a data type that does not have a time component.
It happens only in perl. I'm getting only date in toad.
No, you are getting the entire 7 byte binary value in Toad; however, the user interface is only choosing to show you the date component. There should be a setting in the preferences that can set the date format in Toad which will let you see the entire date-time components.
Oracle SQL/Plus and SQL Developer use the NLS_DATE_FORMAT session parameter and Toad may also be able to use that.
If you want to get the value as a DATE then it will always have a time component (even if you set that time component to zeros using TRUNC).
If you want to get the date so that it is formatted in a way without a time component then you need to convert it to another data type and can use TO_CHAR to format it as a string:
SELECT TO_CHAR(CREATED, 'YYYY-MM-DD')
FROM DBA_OBJECTS
But then you will be returning a (formatted) string and not a DATE data type.

Azure Data Factory. Lookup date in Azure SQL DWH, use in Oracle Query

I have an Oracle database and I have to load dat from this database to Azure SQL DWH. This is done once every day. At the beginning of the pipeline I first do a lookup on SQL DWH to look for the latest date. The result for that is something like '2015-10-25'.
I want to use this date to query the Oracle database. But I allready found out, by trying the query on Oracle that the following code does not work:
Select * from Table 1 where day = '2015-10-25'
The date in the day column looks like 25-OCT-15 (DD-MON-YY).
I treid the following where clause:
where day = TO_DATE('2015-10-25','DD-MON-YY')
But then I get the error: "literal does not match format string"
I realy don't know how to make Oracle understand this T-SQL date format.
Your Oracle column is of date datatype. When you connect to an Oracle database and write a query against that date column, you will see its default format DD-MON-YY as per this reference.
You can override this setting by running an ALTER SESSION command, eg
ALTER SESSION SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT = 'YYYY MM DD';
but this is just in that local session. The data is still stored in Oracle in the same manner and it's simply the way you view it that is changing.
In Azure Data Factory (ADF v2) and your example, you are dealing with strings. So you must make sure any parameters you pass in are in the correct format or set to the correct datatype. The Oracle function TO_DATE converts strings to the date datatype. Therefore when passing in a string of format YYYY-MM-DD then that is the format you must use, to let the TO_DATE function know what you are passing in:
TO_DATE('2015-10-25','YYYY-MM-DD')
The function then successfully converts your parameter to a date datetype for correct comparison against the main date column.
You can try this query:
Select * from Table 1 where day = to_char (to_date('2015-10-25','YYYY-MM-DD'), 'DD-Mon-YY')
Reference this blog: how to convert YYYYMMDD to DD-Mon-YYYY in oracle?
Hope this helps.

Pentaho with Oracle data masking - Timestamp issue

I'm using Pentaho to datamask some of the information on the oracle DB
I have several transformations of the form:
SELECT -> data mask -> UPDATE rows based on primary key
I have tables where a timestamp is part of the primary key in the update step. Even though I am not masking or updating this field in any way, I get the error ORA-01843: not a valid month when performing the update.
I believe this is because when Pentaho takes in the timestamp from Step 1 it doesn’t actually keep it as a timestamp until I try the update and hence the primary key check. Outputting to excel, I see pentaho giving timestamps in the format
2014-07-30 15:44:31.869033 Europe/London (Pentaho)
But in DB the format is
30-JAN-15 09.21.38.109145000 AM (Oracle - TIMESTAMP(6) WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE)
I have tried to convert the pentaho field to a Timestamp (format: yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSSSSS) before the update step but receive errors if I try and use milliseconds.
2017/03/14 13:19:25 - Select values.0 - AUDIT_CREATE_TS Timestamp : couldn't convert string [2015-01-30 09:21:38.109145 Europe/London] to a timestamp, expecting format [yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss.ffffff]
2017/03/14 13:19:25 - Select values.0 - Timestamp format must be yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss[.fffffffff]
If I replace my formatting to the one suggested by Pentaho I get "Illegal character 'f'" and then I am stuck in a loop.
Ignoring milliseconds seems to succeed but won’t give me any matches because it isn’t precise enough and returns no results from db..
Any help would be appreciated!
Not sure about Pentaho, but if you're looking for a conversion from this string:
'2015-01-30 09:21:38.109145 Europe/London'
to a timestamp with timezone in Oracle, it would be:
select to_timestamp_tz('2015-01-30 09:21:38.109145 Europe/London', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS.FF6 TZR') from dual;
See Oracle Datetime Format Models document for more.

How Should I Represent Time of Day in an Oracle database?

I would like to store time of day - e.g. 18:00 in an Oracle database, and would like to do comparison queries with it.
What is the recommended way to represent a time of day column?
You can use a column with datetime typoe and so yo can perform comparisio on datetime column and show th time with to_char(datetime)
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/functions180.htm
eg :
SELECT TO_CHAR(your_col, 'HH24:MI')
FROM your_table;
for format models see http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/sql_elements004.htm

Insert a datetime value with GetDate() function to a SQL server (2005) table?

I am working (or fixing bugs) on an application which was developed in VS 2005 C#. The application saves data to a SQL server 2005. One of insert SQL statement tries to insert a time-stamp value to a field with GetDate() TSQL function as date time value.
Insert into table1 (field1, ... fieldDt) values ('value1', ... GetDate());
The reason to use GetDate() function is that the SQL server may be at a remove site, and the date time may be in a difference time zone. Therefore, GetDate() will always get a date from the server. As the function can be verified in SQL Management Studio, this is what I get:
SELECT GetDate(), LEN(GetDate());
-- 2010-06-10 14:04:48.293 19
One thing I realize is that the length is not up to the milliseconds, i.e., 19 is actually for '2010-06-10 14:04:48'. Anyway, the issue I have right now is that after the insert, the fieldDt actually has a date time value up to minutes, for example, '2010-06-10 14:04:00'. I am not sure why. I don't have permission to update or change the table with a trigger to update the field.
My question is that how I can use a INSERT T-SQL to add a new row with a date time value ( SQL server's local date time) with a precision up to milliseconds?
Check your table. My guess is that the FieldDT column has a data type of SmallDateTime which stores date and time, but with a precision to the nearest minute. If my guess is correct, you will not be able to store seconds or milliseconds unless you change the data type of the column.
I would guess that you are not storing the GetDate() value in a DateTime field. If you store the value in a datetime field you will get the maximum precision allowed by the DateTime type. Additionally, DateTime is a binary type (a double actually) so 19 means 19 bytes, not 19 characters.
Try to create a simple table with a Datetime field like this
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[DateTable](
[DateField] [datetime] NOT NULL
)
And add a date with
insert into datetable (datefield) values(getdate())
When you execute a select you will get back a value including milliseconds. The following query
select * from datetable
returns
2010-06-11 00:38:46.660
Maybe this would work instead of getdate -
SYSDATETIME()
look here if you can find what you need -
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188383.aspx
As you're on SQL 2005, don't forget the getutcdate() function to ensure that, regardless of where your servers are actually located, you have a constant time reference.
Imagine, you have the server in the UK in winter (i.e. GMT+0), and save a record at 10:30am. You then cut over to a SQL server hosted in California (GMT+8) and 8 hours later save another record.
Using getdate(), both saves record the same time "10:30:00". Using getutcdate(), the first save records at "10:30:00", the second save records "18:30:00".
Not really answering the question, but important in your circumstances.
You can use like this in procedure and If there is no procedure use only getdate().
insert into [dbo].[Tbl_User] (UserId,Uvendoremail,UAddress,Ddob,DMobile,
DEmail,DPassword,DAddress,CreatedDate) values (#userid,#vendoremail#address,#dob,#mobile,#email,#dpassword,#daddress,getdate())

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