I am a SQL DBA trying to get some information in Cognos.
The column name is [Packingdate] column.
In order to retrieve last 7 days of packing data information I use the below.
where [Packingdate] >_add_days( current_date, -7 ) -This is working fine.
However when i tried to get November month data I tried the below
[Packingdate] between '2021-11-01' and '2021-11-30'
It is giving me the below error
RQP-DEF-0177 An error occurred while performing operation 'sqlPrepareWithOptions' status='-126'.
Ami missing something?
Remove the quotes:
[Packingdate] between 2021-11-01 and 2021-11-30
When dealing with date or datetime data, YYYY-MM-DD (without quotes) is the format Cognos understands.
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I have a varchar column in redshift table where the time is stored in 24 hours format, e.g, 17:00, I want to query the table and convert the format to 12 hours format showing AM or PM in time. When I test like to_char('17:00'::time,'HH12:MI AM') it works fine but when I put column name in place of hardcoded value querying the table,
SELECT to_char(prepoll_start::time,'HH12:MI AM')
FROM votecast.poll_hours AS ph
WHERE ph.prepoll_start is not null
and state = 'AL'
AND tab_elec_type = 'primary'
It won't work, gives an error
Invalid operation: Specified types or functions (one per INFO message) not supported on Redshift tables.;
Postgres version is 8.0.2
Please let me know what am doing wrong :(
First I had to create a timestamp value out of the time available. Then fetch the time in a 12 hour format.
select to_char( to_timestamp('1900-01-01 '||prepoll_start||':00' ,'YYYY/MM/DD HH:MI:SS') , 'HH12:MI AM')
from votecast.poll_hours;
Amazon Redshift does not support a TIME data type.
See: Datetime Types - Amazon Redshift
However, you are correct that it seems to support TIME for non-table related operations.
I tried playing around with string manipulation but was unable to get beyond the error you experienced. I think it is because TIME is recognized on the leader node, but fails to run on the compute nodes. (This is similar to the behaviour of time_series().)
Thus, you won't be able to use the TIME data type for anything that relies on table data.
I'm having difficulty determining the correct format for a date (not a datetime) expression. In this situation, CloseDate from the Opportunity table.
I have tried multiple formats, including quotes, no quotes, timezones, no timezones. I have this working in regular REST queries just using the date in format yyyy-MM-dd without quotes,
A couple of examples..
CloseDate le 2011-12-31
ERROR: Salesforce failed to complete task: Message: FROM Opportunity WHERE (CloseDate <= 2011-12-31T00:00:00.0000000+00:00)\n ^\nERROR at Row:1:Column:6368\nvalue of filter criterion for field 'CloseDate' must be of type date and should not be enclosed in quotes\r\nclientRequestId: 50c8ea4a-bd02-4e95-919c-df02074f3144",
CloseDate ge '2017-01-01'
ERROR: value of filter criterion for field 'CloseDate' must be of type date and should not be enclosed in quotes
CloseDate ge datetime'2017-01-01'
ERROR: inner exception: Unrecognized 'Edm.String' literal
Help! Has anyone worked out how to specify the format for a "date" field in an ODATA filter?
Many thanks in advance.
UPDATE : FEB 11 2020 : I have worked w Microsoft support and this bug is fixed!
You can now filter against date fields or date time fields. Previously filters against date fields failed because flow converted to datetime and sfdc specifies that date fields cannot be queried as datetime
ORIG POST:
I have been poking on this and it looks like msft flow / power automate can only query dateTime fields in salesforce, but not date fields.
i can filter createdDate gt 2020-01-01 with no issues, but cannot query closeDate or any custom date field (flow will not run successfully - throws an error as above). custom datetime field works fine.
the only workaround i have found is to use relative dates - THIS_MONTH, LAST_MONTH etc work fine. (shocking!) that is quite helpful.
however the LAST_N_DAYS:N style does not work, the colon appears to break things.
i have opened a case with microsoft support as it appears that their connector transforms all dates to datetime, and the salesforce docs specify that date fields cannot be queried as datetime
A fieldExpression uses different date formats for date and dateTime fields. If you specify a dateTime format in a query, you can filter only on dateTime fields. Similarly, if you specify a date format value, you can filter only on date fields.:
I had this issues querying the relative days in power flow,power flow had a handy function to resolve this,
LastModifiedDate ge #{getPastTime(7,'Day','yyyy-MM-dd')}
This works well for me
Tableau is reading my dates wrong. I have 2 columns, Date and number for each day.
The date format is “yyyymmdd” i.e. (20160617) and per day number is integer. I am fetching this data directly from SQL server and my problem is, tableau is reading my dates wrong.
So I tried DATEPARSE() to convert my date.
My DATEPARSE function is : DATEPARSE(“yyyymmdd”,”Date”) , now after using DATEPARSE function, I get NULL for my dates.
Can anyone please help me why I get NULL for dates, my query returns 30-day data which is divided into per day count.
Sample after running the query on SQL
Date Per day number
20160617 215674
Tableau does not accept this date format and I applied DateParse(), which I guess is returning string since my date is null. I would ideally like to get the correct date so I can apply a trend line on my data.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers!
You aren't using DateParse() correctly. The second parameter, which you have as "Date", should be the name of the field you want parsed. So for example, if you store 20160617 in a field called my_date_as_integer, your function should be DateParse("yyyymmdd", [my_date_as_integer])
I am new to Cognos and I am trying to add a filter to a column that only allows rows that are in between Yesterday at 4 AM and today at 3 AM. I have a working query in db2 but when I try to add it to the filter in Cognos I get a parsing error. Also, I found in the properties that the data type for the column I am trying to filter to be Unknown (Unsupported) type. I started off by creating two Data Item Expressions for each time frame I am trying to limit the data by. But I got a parsing error on the first one:
[Presentation Layer].[Cr dtime]=timestamp(current date) - 1 day + 4 hour
This works in my db2 local test database but doesn't even compile in Cognos. I also tried casting the column into a timestamp but that isn't working either. Any help is appreciated. I also tried using the _add_days function but I still get a parsing error. Also sampling the column I get values that appear to be timestamps as this string: 2016-01-02T11:11:45.000000000
Eventually if I get the two filters working I expect the original filter to be close to this syntax:
[Presentation Layer].[Cr dtime] is between [Yesterday 4AM] AND [Today 3AM]
Here is your filter:
[Presentation Layer].[Cr dtime] between
cast(_add_hours(_add_days(current_date,-1),4),timestamp)
and
cast(_add_hours(current_date,3),timestamp)
This works because current_date in Cognos does not have a time component. If you were to cast it directly to a timestamp type you would see the time part of the date as 12:00:00.000 AM, or midnight. Knowing this we can then simply add how much time after midnight we want, cast as a timestamp type and use this in the filter.
I export data in csv format from sql server database. It contain 5 column. one column have date and time value. When i checked the date -time value i found date time value is in wrong format. I add the filter but filter not applied on some data. I try to format the data in same format but formatting did not applied on the data. I tried everything to fix the issue but it is not getting fix.
I have attached the sample data please check it from your end.
7/12/2013 14:50
8/12/2013 20:14
9/12/2013 11:38
10/12/2013 15:31
13/12/2013 12:45:50
13/12/2013 14:35:42
13/12/2013 14:37:40
14/12/2013 17:00:10
18/12/2013 14:57:35
Data started from 13/12/2013 12:45:50 are not getting change in date time format.
The trouble is that your dates are in french format dd/mm/yyyy you can force them to datetime with the following line :
[datetime]::ParseExact("7/12/2013 14:50", "d/MM/yyyy HH:mm", $null)
[datetime]::ParseExact("13/12/2013 12:45:50", "d/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss", $null)
Be carefull in you case sometime you've got seconds and a double space between day and time.