Is there any non-obnoxious way (eg: without have to result to using datepart a million times) to do this? For instance, Oracle provides a function called Trunc which does it, but I cannot find an SQL Server equivalent. Anyone? TIA!!!
I just need the date, hour, and minute...not the micro seconds. Do I have to DATEPART and concatenate each or is there any way to simply truncate the milliseconds from it? Or is there a date format to put extract and report on it as...
What I'd like to do with the sample query above is take an AVG for one hour for the values ZNT, SAT, RAT, RH...like I stated the records are every five minutes in the table, I'd like to create 60 minute AVGs.
Is there a way that I can do this at the table level to automatically handle the rounding of seconds, etc. down to the minute automatically without having to use a trigger?
Here is a very basic example of what I am trying to do:
--example: '09-22-2007 15:07:18.850' this is the value inserted into the table by the code select getdate()
--example: '2007-09-22 15:07:00.000' this is the value I want to store in the table select dateadd(mi, datediff(mi, 0, getdate()), 0)
I have a table with a datetime field (named "lnDateDone") and an integer field (named "PlannedHour"). I want to build a new datetime field with the same value as lnDateDone and replacing the hour part by the PlannedHour field. Example:
lnDateDone = '2014-04-09 13:22:31.544' HourPlanned = 14 new datetime field = '2014-04-09 14:00:00'
I tried the following:
CAST(SUBSTRING(CAST(lnDateDone AS VARCHAR(25)),1,12) + CAST(PlannedHour AS VARCHAR(2)) + SUBSTRING(CAST(lnDateDone AS VARCHAR(25)), 15, LEN(lnDateHeureFin)) AS SMALLDATETIME) AS DatePrevue
but it won't work when casted in DateTime format, only in varchar, but I want it in datetime as I need to do compute some values using date manipulation functions.
I have a table that is recording hits to a website. Everytime someone views a page, the datetime of the hit is recorded in a field called hit_date_time. I would like to be able to come up with a query that will show how many hits occured on a given day or given days, broken down by hour.
The resulting table for two days would look something like: Time Hits 1/1/01 12:00 1 1/1/01 1:00 23 1/1/01 2:00 54 1/2/01 1:00 15 1/2/01 2:00 14
I can't seem to figure out how to write the query so that I can take into consideration the date and hour of the event so that I can count it.
This algorithm can be used to strip out HTML tags too. With reference to http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=89973 and http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=90000CREATE FUNCTIONdbo.fnParseRTF ( @rtf VARCHAR(8000) ) RETURNS VARCHAR(8000) AS BEGIN DECLARE@Stage TABLE ( Chr CHAR(1), Pos INT )
INSERT@Stage ( Chr, Pos ) SELECTSUBSTRING(@rtf, Number, 1), Number FROMmaster..spt_values WHEREType = 'p' AND SUBSTRING(@rtf, Number, 1) IN ('{', '}')
WHILE 1 = 1 BEGIN SELECT TOP 1@Pos1 = s1.Pos, @Pos2 = s2.Pos FROM@Stage AS s1 INNER JOIN@Stage AS s2 ON s2.Pos > s1.Pos WHEREs1.Chr = '{' AND s2.Chr = '}' ORDER BYs2.Pos - s1.Pos
Is it possible expire a report cache after less than one minute? I'm looking for a way to only have a report hit the database once every 10 seconds, no matter how many people are hitting it. Thanks.
I have a column of 5 comma-separated-value strings:
stringA, stringB, stringC, stringD, stringE
The strings are GUID's with the hyphen stripped and made all uppercase so they are completely random. I need to be able to remove any one of the strings including the comma, in a stored procedure and I am not sure how to accomplish this.
SELECT tickets FROM users WHERE CONTAINS (tickets, @ticket)
IF @@rowcount > 0 REMOVE STUFF HERE SET @valid = 1 ELSE SET @valid = 0
So if stringB gets passed in as @ticket then the new value in the column would be :
I have a phone number string (416) 555-5555 in a table. I'd like to perform a search on the string so that the user is able to pass any number, and the query returns all phone numbers like it. What I'd like to do is to strip out the brackets and dashes and perform a like search.
Hi, I use RS 2005 SP2. I add a text item value " smth..." No problem in preview, but export to pdf strip out whitespace characters and then my report in pdf like: "smth..."
Hello Probably a very simple problem, but im stumped. I have a table which gives the start-time and end-time of an employees work day. I want to create a view which contains a line of data for each 5 minute period worked. Please help.
hey, what the best way of stripping out a list of characters from a specified field in a table. e.g If first name consists of ABCD'E-FSA, we wnat to strip the ' and the -. There is about 15-20 characters like that. what's the best way of doing it other encapsulating in the replace function that many times. thanks zoey
I have a table that I've imported into SQL - there is a field in there for date that must have used now(); as its default value (access).
So the values are something like:
01/11/2004 12:16:42
I need a way to change the data so that the time element removed is the field just holds the date. Failing that a way to insert this from the existing field into a new field stripping the date off en route would be a great help.
I am not aware of this if it exists in MS SQL server. But I need to return results in alphabetic order ignoring "The" if it's the first word of a title...
so for example title "The Cliffhanger" would be returned along with other titles that start with letter C, but "The" also must be returned as part of the title, but just ignored while alphabetizing.
I'm sure that I'm not the first one to ever need this and don't want to re-invent the wheel, so if you have any ideas as to the best way to accomplish this, help me out.
the ssis expression language getdate() function returns the current date with the current time. i only need to get the current date, without the current time. for example: 9/1/2006
how would i construct the proper expression to return this value?
I am trying to do string scrubbing in a sql clr function, including removing certain HTML formatting. I would like to use HtmlDecode method, but it's my understanding that System.Web is not available for Sql Clr (without marking code unsafe - not an option for me as this is for an application we sell externally, and unsafe calls woudl not go over well with customers). Is there any class that IS supported for Sql Clr that exposes this functionality? Thanks.
I have collected perfmon data that is in every 15 seconds. I need to run a query that will only retrun rows that are 5 minutes from the last row starting at a specific date/time.
hi, i need to synchronize a table from a database to two tables on a different database. I was thinking in a stored procedure to do it and create a job that execute it every minute.
I don't know if this is the right method... maybe it can be a bad decision for the server performance.
