How to resolve my issue below?
1. I am pulling data from AS/400 DB2 using (iseries access odbc driver) to SSRS.
2. I want to format the column stores in integer to date format.
Sample = 20180612 below is the SQL Query.
Using below query,
SELECT CHAR(DATE(SUBSTR(DIGITS(20180612),1,4)||'-'||
SUBSTR(DIGITS(20180612),5,2)||'-'||
SUBSTR(DIGITS(20180612),7,2)),ISO) AS RESULTSDATE
Output = 2018-06-02
Question: How can I produce a below custom date format like d/m/yyyy
I have used, ISO, USA, LOCAL, JIS, EUR but no yield.
Example: 2/6/2018
If you want to do it in SQL Server, the closest you can CONVERT it to is the USA 110 (mm-dd-yyyy) in SQL Server.
If the your dataset has a field with the 2018-06-02, you can use the CDATE function is SSRS to convert it to a date and then format the text box the way you want with the FORMAT property or the FORMAT function.
Format Function:
=FORMAT(CDATE("2018-06-02"), "M/d/yyyy")
Format Property of Text Box:
/* this is as close as I can come to the desired results there is a leading zero */
select
varchar_format(
timestamp_format(char(20180612), 'YYYYMMDD')
, 'DD/MM/YYYY') as resultdate
from my8digitdatetable
/* for export IRL send out a date */
select
cast(
timestamp_format(char(20180612), 'YYYYMMDD')
as date) as resultdate
from my8digitdatetable
I got it already. I just format it to the date without formatting.
SELECT DATE(SUBSTR(DIGITS(MIN(DTAHRS.HREMCP.EMREDT)),1,4)||'-'||
SUBSTR(DIGITS(MIN(DTAHRS.HREMCP.EMREDT)),5,2)||'-'||
SUBSTR(DIGITS(MIN(DTAHRS.HREMCP.EMREDT)),7,2)) AS RESULTSDATE
After that, I put this as sub-query so that I can pass this to the parameter.
Below is my whole query, then at SSRS I can use date/time parameter control to compare with the results.
SELECT x.RESULTSDATE
FROM ( SELECT DATE(SUBSTR(DIGITS(MIN(DTAHRS.HRLVTP.LTLDTE)),1,4)||'-'||
SUBSTR(DIGITS(MIN(DTAHRS.HRLVTP.LTLDTE)),5,2)||'-'||
SUBSTR(DIGITS(MIN(DTAHRS.HRLVTP.LTLDTE)),7,2)) AS RESULTSDATE
) as x
WHERE x.RESULTSDATE >= ? AND x.RESULTSDATE <= ?
I hope it will help you too.
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Using derived column i am adding 3 columns -> 2 columns for date and 1 for timestamp. for the date columns i am passing a string as parameter. for eg: 21-11-2021 and timstamp i am using currenttimestamp fucntion.
i wrote expressions in derived columns to convert them as date and timestamp datatype and also in a format that target table needs which is dd-MM-yyyy and dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss repectively
For date->
expression used: toDate($initialdate, 'dd-MM-yyyy')
data preview output: 2021-01-21 --(not in the format i want)
After pipline Debug Run, value in target DB(Azure sql database) column:
2021-01-21T00:00:00 -- in table it shows like this I dont understand why
For Timstamp conversion:
Expression used:
toTimestamp(toString(currentTimestamp(), 'dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss', 'Europe/Amsterdam'), 'dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss')
Data preview output: 2021-11-17 19:37:04 -- not in the format i want
After pipline Debug Run, value in target DB(Azure sql database) column:
2021-11-17T19:37:04:932 -in table it shows like this I dont understand why
question 1: I am NOT getting values in the format the target requires ???and it should be only in DATE And Datetime2 dataype respectively so no string conversions
question 2: after debug run i dont know why after insert the table values look different from Data preview???
Kinldy let me know if i have written any wrong expressions??
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toDate() converts input date string to date with default format as yyyy-[M]M-[d]d. Accepted formats are :[ yyyy, yyyy-[M]M, yyyy-[M]M-[d]d, yyyy-[M]M-[d]dT* ].
Same goes with toTimestamp(), the default pattern is yyyy-[M]M-[d]d hh:mm:ss[.f...] when it is used.
In Azure SQL Database as well the default date and datetime2 formats are in YYYY-MM-DD and YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss as shown below.
But if your column datatypes are in string (varchar) format, then you can change the output format of date and DateTime in azure data flow mappings.
When loaded to Azure SQL database, it is shown as below:
Note: This format results when datatype is varchar
If the datatype is the date in the Azure SQL database, you can convert them to the required format using date conversions as
select id, col1, date1, convert(varchar(10),date1,105) as 'dd-MM-YYYY' from test1
Azure SQL Database always follows the UTC time zone. Using “AT TIME ZONE” convert it another non-UTC time zone.
select getdate() as a, getdate() AT TIME ZONE 'UTC' AT TIME ZONE 'Central Standard Time' as b
You can also refer to sys.time_zone_info view to check current UTC offset information.
select * from sys.time_zone_info
Can I pass format for the time or date datatype in SQL Server 2008 R2?
Example: a column with time format like hh:mm ONLY
I searched and found that I can pass fractional second scale with like below but that is will get met a time format with seconds hh:mm:ss and I only want hh:mm
Note
I do not want to avoid this case in the select statement it wont help me in when using the column in Crystal Reports and I am not able to format it in Crystal Reports there is no date-time tab in format object option
_HOUR time(0);
I do not want to avoid this case in the select statement ...
I am not able to format it in crystal report
But you do need a select statement to produce a report, so one way is to use a "style number" (8) with the convert() function - but you only want the leading 5 characters, so use char(5) for the result. i.e.
select convert(char(5), [datetime_or_time_column] ,8) as "hh:mm"
from thetables
You do not indicate at all how you gather the data for the report, but if using a temp table or stored procedure (or even a view) you can use the convert syntax above when producing the result. Note is is possible to use T-SQL's format() like so format(getdate(),'HH:mm') but this is usually slower than using convert().
If you have permission to add calculated columns to your table AND this wanted hh:mm data is deterministic, you could also use the convert syntax shown above for a calculated column.
In TSQL, I have a datetime variable that I want to display/group by:
YYYY-MM-DD HH
CONVERT() seems to be able to pull out date formats, but only predefined ones and not something like MySQL's DATE_FORMAT which allows me to customize the format.
What function in TSQL lets me customize the date format?
Try this (replace Getdate() function with your column name):
SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(13), GETDATE(), 120)
Are you using SQL Server 2012 or later? If so you should be able to use the built-in FORMAT function.
I have a Crystal report (version XI r3) that uses a SQL command object to retrieve its data. In the command object I have a parameter for a date. My database uses "date" fields stored as numeric values in YYYYMMDD format, so I've specified the parameter as numeric and added a prompt to say "enter date in YYYYMMDD format".
My users don't much care for that; they want to be able to use the date-picker and/or to be able to enter the date in MM/DD/YYYY format.
My investigations so far have led me to believe that if I convert the parameter to a true date datatype, I won't be able to make use of it in the SQL command object because I can't convert it from a date to a number in the SQL statement, so I'd have to do my date-range control in the Crystal Select Wizard rather than in my SQL statement, which could slow my report down by an order of magnitude or two (since I'm hitting a table that is indexed by this date field, and that has a lot of records per day).
Am I wrong? Is there a way to let a user enter a date in MM/DD/YYYY format and still be able to use it as a numeric YYYYMMDD parameter in my SQL command object?
I'm afraid you would have to modify the original Command's to replace the numeric parameter with a date parameter, and do the conversion from date to number within the Command itself.
So, within the Command:
WHERE MyDate = {?MyNumberParam)
would become:
WHERE MyDate = (YEAR({?MyDateParam})*10000) + (MONTH({?MyDateParam})*100) + DAY({?MyDateParam})
The last part will convert 20th April 2012 to (2012*10000 + 4*100 + 20) = 20120420, which I believe is what you'd want.
I have create one field in sql server database as nvarchar datatype and store some date like 'd/MM/yyyy' and 'dd/MM/yyyy' format previously. Now i want to get all data in 'dd/MM/yyyy' format using query it is possible?
You can cast the field to datetime in the query:
select cast(YourField as datetime)
from YourTable
where isdate(YourField) = 1
The where isdate(YourField) = 1 part is necessary to filter out rows where the value is no valid date (it's a nvarchar field, so there could be things like abc in some rows!)
But you should really change the field to datetime in the long term, as already suggested by Christopher in his comment.
Casting like described above is always error-prone because of the many different data formats in different countries.
For example, I live in Germany where the official date format is dd.mm.yyyy.
So today (December 9th) is 9.12.2011, and running select cast('9.12.2011' as datetime) on my machine returns the correct datetime value.
Another common format is mm/dd/yyyy, so December 9th would be 12/9/2011.
Now imagine I have a nvarchar field with a date in this format on my German machine:
select cast('12/9/2011' as datetime) will return September 12th (instead of December 9th)!
Issues like this can easily be avoided by using the proper type for the column, in this case datetime.