I just wanted to know the difference between these two codes:
select count (user_id) from tb_users where
creation_date :: date between '2022-05-15' and '2022-06-15'
Result: 41,232
select count (user_id) from tb_users where
creation_date between '2022-05-15' and '2022-06-15'
Result: 40,130
As far as I see, it is related with the timestamp, but I do not understand the difference.
Thank you!
Your column creation_date in the table is most probably in timestamp format, which is '2022-05-15 00:00:00'. By adding ::date <- you are casting your timestamp format to date format: '2022-05-15'.
You can read more about casting data types here:
https://www.postgresqltutorial.com/postgresql-tutorial/postgresql-cast/
When you ask Postgres to implicitly coerce a DATE value to a TIMESTAMP value - the hours, minutes and seconds are set to zero.
In the first query, you explicitly cast the creation date to DATE which is successfully compared to the provided DATE values.
In the second query, the creation date is of type TIMESTAMP and so PostgreSQL converts your DATE values to TIMESTAMP values and the comparison becomes
creation_date >= '2022-05-15 00:00:00' AND creation_date <= '2022-06-15 00:00:00'
Obviously, this produces different resultset than the first query.
Related
Below is a script i am trying to run in Presto; Subtracting today's date from an integer field I am attempting to convert to date. To get the exacts days between. Unfortunately, it seems the highlighted block does not always convert the date correctly and my final answer is not correct. Please does anyone know another way around this or a standard method on presto of converting integer values to date.
Interger value in the column is in the format '20191123' for year-month-date
select ms, activ_dt, current_date, date_diff('day',act_dt,current_date) from
(
select ms,activ_dt, **CAST(parse_datetime(CAST(activ_dt AS varchar), 'YYYYMMDD') AS date) as act_dt**, nov19
from h.A_Subs_1 where msisdn_key=23480320012
) limit 19
You can convert "date as a number" (eg. 20180527 for May 27, 2018) using the following:
cast to varchar
parse_datetime with appropriate format
cast to date (since parse_datetime returns a timestamp)
Example:
presto> SELECT CAST(parse_datetime(CAST(20180527 AS varchar), 'yyyyMMdd') AS date);
_col0
------------
2018-05-27
You can use below sample query for your requirement:
select date_diff('day', date_parse('20191209', '%Y%m%d'), current_timestamp);
i am trying to insert CURRENTDATE as the value for a field that has the type defined as "Timestamp without Timezone".
INSERT INTO monthly_forecasts VALUES
('1','DIV1','Mon','Tue','Wed','Thu','Fri','','','','','-3',CURRENTDATE, CURRENTDATE)
But I get this error when I do that:
ERROR: column "currentdate" does not exist
LINE 2: ...'Mon','Tue','Wed','Thu','Fri','','','','','-3',CURRENTDAT...
^
How do I insert current date as the value for this field? Please help!
As documented in the manual the function is named current_date, not currentdate.
But as your column is defined as timestamp, you should use current_timestamp to include the time of the day (a DATE doesn't have a time)
In the view I have a text column which contains a timestamp in this format '20/03/2018 00:00' and I'm trying to make a selection with a between clause but it's not working
SELECT id,entry_date
FROM v_view
WHERE entrada BETWEEN to_timestamp('20/03/2018 00:00','DD/MM/YYYY')::timestamp and to_timestamp('22/03/2018 00:00')::timestamp
order entry_date
with this error message
ERROR: el operador no existe: text >= timestamp without time zone
LINE 3: WHERE entry_date BETWEEN to_timestamp('20/03/2018 00:00','DD/MM.
you need to convert the entrada column value to a timestamp.
Also: casting the result of to_timestamp() to a timestamp is useless because to_timestamp() already returns a timestamp
SELECT id,entry_date
FROM v_view
WHERE to_timestamp(entrada, 'dd/mm/yyyy hh24:mi')
BETWEEN to_timestamp('20/03/2018', 'DD/MM/YYYY')
and to_timestamp('22/03/2018', 'dd/mm/yyyy')
order entry_date;
I prefer to use ANSI SQL timestamp literals over the to_timestamp function:
SELECT id,entry_date
FROM v_view
WHERE to_timestamp(entrada, 'dd/mm/yyyy hh24:mi')
BETWEEN timestamp '2018-03-20 00:00:00'
and timestamp '2018-03-22 00:00:00'
order entry_date
Do not store date, time or timestamp values in a text or varchar column. You should define that column as timestamp then you don't need to convert anything and you don't need to deal with invalid timestamp values in that column.
What's the easiest way to update a table that contains a DATETIME column on TSQL with RANDOM value between 2 dates?
I see various post related to that but their Random values are really sequential when you ORDER BY DATE after the update.
Assumptions
First assume that you have a database containing a table with a start datetime column and a end datetime column, which together define a datetime range:
CREATE DATABASE StackOverflow11387226;
GO
USE StackOverflow11387226;
GO
CREATE TABLE DateTimeRanges (
StartDateTime DATETIME NOT NULL,
EndDateTime DATETIME NOT NULL
);
GO
ALTER TABLE DateTimeRanges
ADD CONSTRAINT CK_PositiveRange CHECK (EndDateTime > StartDateTime);
And assume that the table contains some data:
INSERT INTO DateTimeRanges (
StartDateTime,
EndDateTime
)
VALUES
('2012-07-09 00:30', '2012-07-09 01:30'),
('2012-01-01 00:00', '2013-01-01 00:00'),
('1988-07-25 22:30', '2012-07-09 00:30');
GO
Method
The following SELECT statement returns the start datetime, the end datetime, and a pseudorandom datetime with minute precision greater than or equal to the start datetime and less than the second datetime:
SELECT
StartDateTime,
EndDateTime,
DATEADD(
MINUTE,
ABS(CHECKSUM(NEWID())) % DATEDIFF(MINUTE, StartDateTime, EndDateTime) + DATEDIFF(MINUTE, 0, StartDateTime),
0
) AS RandomDateTime
FROM DateTimeRanges;
Result
Because the NEWID() function is nondeterministic, this will return a different result set for every execution. Here is the result set I generated just now:
StartDateTime EndDateTime RandomDateTime
----------------------- ----------------------- -----------------------
2012-07-09 00:30:00.000 2012-07-09 01:30:00.000 2012-07-09 00:44:00.000
2012-01-01 00:00:00.000 2013-01-01 00:00:00.000 2012-09-08 20:41:00.000
1988-07-25 22:30:00.000 2012-07-09 00:30:00.000 1996-01-05 23:48:00.000
All the values in the column RandomDateTime lie between the values in columns StartDateTime and EndDateTime.
Explanation
This technique for generating random values is due to Jeff Moden. He wrote a great article on SQL Server Central about data generation. Read it for a more thorough explanation. Registration is required, but it's well worth it.
The idea is to generate a random offset from the start datetime, and add the offset to the start datetime to get a new datetime in between the start datetime and the end datetime.
The expression DATEDIFF(MINUTE, StartDateTime, EndDateTime) represents the total number of minutes between the start datetime and the end datetime. The offset must be less than or equal to this value.
The expression ABS(CHECKSUM(NEWID())) generates an independent random positive integer for every row. The expression can have any value from 0 to 2,147,483,647. This expression mod the first expression gives a valid offset in minutes.
The epxression DATEDIFF(MINUTE, 0, StartDateTime) represents the total number of minutes between the start datetime and a reference datetime of 0, which is shorthand for '1900-01-01 00:00:00.000'. The value of the reference datetime does not matter, but it matters that the same reference date is used in the whole expression. Add this to the offset to get the total number of minutes between the reference datetime.
The ecapsulating DATEADD function converts this to a datetime value by adding the number of minutes produced by the previous expression to the reference datetime.
You can use RAND for this:
select cast(cast(RAND()*100000 as int) as datetime)
from here
Sql-Fiddle looks quite good: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!3/b9e44/2/0
I have column of type date time and values are getting stored in format 10-29-2011 08:25.
I would like to find out the rows only which are less then current date-time. What will be the condition for date comparison for current date and this date-time column field?
Thanks.
you could use the datetime function
SELECT * FROM mytable
WHERE mydate > datetime('now')
you can even make date operations
SELECT * FROM mytable
WHERE mydate > datetime('now','-15 days')