I have found similar help, but the issue was more complex, I am only good with the basics of SQL and am striking out here. I get a handful of columns a,b,c,startdate,enddate and i need to parse that data out into multiple rows depending on how many months are within the range.
Eg: a,b,c,1/1/2015, 3/15,2015 would become:
a,b,c,1/1/2015,value_here_doesnt_matter
a,b,c,2/1/2015,value_here_doesnt_matter
a,b,c,3/1/2015,value_here_doesnt_matter
Does not matter if the start date or end date is on a specific day, the only thing that matters is month and year. So if the range included any day in a given month, I'd want to output start days for each month in the range, with the 1st as a default day.
Could I have any advice on which direction to begin? I'm attempting generate_series, but am unsure if this is the right approach or how to make it work with keeping the data in the first few arbitrary columns consistent.
I think generate_series is the way to go. Without knowing what the rest of your data looks like, I would start with something like this:
select
a, b, c, generate_series(startdate, enddate, interval '1 month')::date
from
my_table
Related
]Difference and percent Difference must be calculated.
I cannot do Apr20-MAy20 because it is not always the same. I need to show the current month and previous month
So I did a relative filter to just show the current month and previous month.
So the difference of two columns should automatically change when the month changes.
Now how do I get the same month of prior year, how do I filter ?
I also need to calculate the difference of current year same month and previous year same month.
Thank you in advance for any help!
When I do table across difference, the difference value is overwriting the existing May and Apr month values as the below screen shot, how to show the difference in another column
Currently:
Below is Expected:
Sounds like you should create a custom filter for the dates. You want:
This month this year
This month last year
Last month this year
There are a number of ways you could do this. I'll give one example and will assume there aren't any future dates in your data set.
[DateFilter]: DATETRUNC('month',[YourDateField])>=DATETRUNC('month',DATEADD('month',-1,TODAY())) OR DATETRUNC('month',[YourDateField])=DATETRUNC('month',DATEADD('year',-1,TODAY()))
Put the to the filters shelf, set to True, and it should keep the months you want.
Then you can just use the standard table calculations to calculate Difference and Percent Difference.
Note, the formula isn't tested, just typed directly into here, let me know if it doesn't work
Based on your comments look at creating separate calculations for to YoY / MoM / etc calculation. That also means creating calculated fields to isolate the Current Month, Previous Month, etc.
For example, the current month:
[isCM]: DATETRUNC('month',[YourDateField]) = DATETRUNC('month',TODAY())
The previous month:
[isPM]: DATETRUNC('month',[YourDateField]) = DATETRUNC('month',DATEADD('month',-1,TODAY()))
Then month on month, something like:
[MoM]: (SUM([Measure])*INT([isCM]))/(SUM([Measure])*INT([isPM]))
To make your table check this article about using the placeholder technique to create tables in Tableau
Here I'm saving the date range using golang. Suppose we have to save the all monday comes between the range of the 1-may-2018 to 14-july-2018.
How we will find all the monday between these range using golang and on the other hand we have set the start_time (8:00 A.M.) and the end_time (6:00 P.M.) of the first two coming monday in the database but on the third monday we have a change in the schedule that there is a time change like start_time (9:00 A.M.) and end_time (5:00 P.M.). Then how I will make my database to make this situation in practically using the golang.
Can Anybody help me for this to solve this solution. I made a database for and I do ppr work on it and make some fields shown below:-
Fields for Schedule //Schedule is a collection name
Id (int)
Day (string)
Start_hours (int)
Start_minutes (int)
End_hours (int)
End_minutes (int)
Start_date (timestamp)
End_date (timestamp)
How I will select monday between the selected range and how will I do the situation I explained above can anybody give guidance to me to make this situation easier. Thank you if this is a basic question then I'm really sorry.
I'd make something like this.
Find the first Monday date from the date range (see for example How do I get the first Monday of a given month in Go?
Mondays happen every week, so you can easily find the rest of dates by adding 7 days till the end date
Store all the Monday dates you found with the start and end times
I wouldn't bother with hours and minutes as you can easily get them from the timestamps in Go. Here is the simplified DB structure I would make
Fields for Schedule //Schedule is a collection name
Id (int)
Day (string)
Date (timestamp) // the actual date
Start (timestamp)
End (timestamp)
You don't need any more fields. You can get the day of the week (Day (string) in your structure, e.g. Monday) from the Date field too, but I believe if you want to query the collection by different days, this might speed things up, but be careful if you need to adjust for time zones. If you work with more than one, then store everything in UTC and you may have an extra filed Timezone, cos a date could be Monday for one zone and Sunday for another.
So, the Schedule will hold weekdays and start and end times for each of them. I'm not sure if you need to store initial date ranges, the Schedule collection will hold that range as well, form the first record to the last one. In my mind, I'd initially populate the collection with a given date range, then later on, I can modify it by adding new days, or deleting them.
When you query this collection with some start and end date range for the Date field, if your first result comes newer than 7 days from the start, this means you miss 1 or more entries from the start. If the last result comes older than 7 days from the range end, this means you miss some entries prior to the range end.
There is nothing specific to Go, in my opinion, Go works well with dates and you don't need any special date structures in your DB.
Could someone please explain me creating BINS based on Weekdays in Tableau? I tried creating different Calculation Fields but it won't work
You're working too hard.
Tableau already knows how to bin values by dates at many levels of granualarity: such as year, month, day, weekday, hour etc. So you don't need to create a new field to bin dates by the day of the week. (creating bins is not difficult, it's just already available in this case)
Just put a discrete (blue) date or datetime field on a shelf. You'll see the date level of granularity displayed like, say, YEAR(MyDateField) with a leading plus sign.
You can either
click on the plus sign to drill down by adding a second level, say MONTH(MyDateField)
or
right click on the field to select the date level of granularity you want
Alex's Answer is exactly correct, Tableau will perform the operation automatically. What is great about is that you can select various formats (Full day name, number, 1 letter or 3 letter day etc.).
However if you absolutely need to you can used this formula:
datepart('weekday',[Date])
to give you the 1 (Sunday) to 7 (Saturday) value if you need it for something other reason, say another calculation.
I need to filter my query with different time intervals like that:
...
where
date >= '2011-07-01' and date <='2011-09-30'
and date >='2012-07-01' and date >='2012-09-30'
I suppose such code is not good, because these dates conflicts with each other. But how to filter only these two intervals, skipping everything else? Is it even possible? Because if I query like this, I don't get any results.I tried to use BETWEEN, but it does same thing.
I bypassed this by extracting quarters from years and calculating only third quarter. But then other quarters sum is showed as zero and I can't ignore these rows that have sum column with zero value. I tried to filter where price > 0 (column where sum goes), but it says that column do not exist. So I put it whole FROM under '('')' brackets to make it calculate sum before where clause, but it still does give me error that such column do not exist.
Also if you need to see query I have now, I can post it, just tell me if it is needed.
I want to do this, because I need to compare third quarter of two different years (maybe I should use another approach).
You're not going to get any results because you can't have a date that's both within 7/1/2011 through 9/30/11 and after 7/1/2012 and after 9/30/12.
You can have a date that is either between 7/1/20122 and 9/30/2011 or between 7/1/2012 and 9/30/2012.
SELECT col1 FROM table1
WHERE date BETWEEN '7/1/2011' AND '9/30/2011' OR date BETWEEN '7/1/2012' AND '9/30/2012';
I am using Objective-C within X-code.
I am iterating through a dictionary which contains a date value as one of it's keys. All I want to do is get an array of all the distinct dates so I can use them in a table, as headers. I just plan on
iterating the dictionary and adding dates to a mutable array each time I encounter a new date.
I must set previous date to new date for comparisons to work and I am having a very difficult time figuring out how to set one date equal to another date.
This seems like it should be such a simple thing to do and I am trying to avoid converting the dates to strings first - but if that's what I have to do, then so be it.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Gerry O.
If you know the time offset is same as GMT, you could do it by dividing the date's timestamp by 86400 seconds (or three more 0s in milliseconds) and comparing those. If a time offset is there, add or subtract by 3600 seconds per hour before you divide them. But then again, leap years and seconds would break that...
Most languages have libraries support extracting the year, date, month, etc. They take everything into account, usually.
In Objc, you can get a NSDateComponents from NSCalendar's components:fromDate: method. After this, you can call the components to see exactly what each component (I suggest year, month, day) is.
I think you want code to compare dates and You need two loops nested.... where in outer loops iterates with conditional inner loop... In inner loop you just check that previously you had the same date or not...
please go through the below post on same site...
How to compare two dates in Objective-C
hope you will get solution... else clarify your question....