Storing Time
May 21, 2004how can i store time in my table
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how can i store time in my table
1 hr:55 mins:22 secs
Is there a way to store a time in the SQLServer database, without the date? (e.g. just simply "HH:MM" instead of "HH:MM DD/MM/YYYY" which it stores it in)
View 1 Replies View RelatedHi,I have a table which I need to store times in. What is the best way of doing this? The only way I can think of so far is to save the times as a datetime such as '1/1/1900 03:00 PM' then format the date as "hh:mm tt" so that the day isn't displayed. Is this the best method?Thanks,Curt.
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i would like to store just the time part in sqlserver 2000. time part with default date which is 1899 - 12- 30 in my sql server. but i read some articles which mentioned default date as 1900 - 01 - 01. i am not sure which one but if i enter just the time part in my sql server and do the query i get 1899 -12-30 and (time part). anyway, i am just wondering whether it is possible to set the trigger or constraints to strip off the date part of entered value and replacing it with default is ok.
the reason is i need to some queries on time part only which is giving some problem now.
i've got an excel spreadsheet generated everyday which stores the duration of talk time as 0:02:09
When i use the Integration Services Package to move the data into a table. I've used datetime column. It comes up as 1899-12-30 00:00:02:09.000
What's best practice to store duration as in a SQL Server table? or should i convert it to seconds.
Hello all,
Perhaps someone out there could enlighten me on the issue of date/time (particularly time) storage.
I am trying to get the time component to be stored in a Datetime field. I can do a Date only as follows:
INSERT INTO Test ([DateTime])VALUES(Cast(convert(char(10),GETDATE(),102) as Datetime))
I attempted the following:
INSERT INTO Test ([DateTime])VALUES(Cast(convert(char(8),GETDATE(),108) as Datetime))
But I cannot get the time component without the default date 1/1/1900 component.
If any of you gurus out there can help me out it would be very much appreciated.
Thanks!
HI there,I currently store the date using the getdate() functionbut how can I store just the time or seperate the time off from adatetime datatype?M3ckon*** Sent via Devdex http://www.devdex.com ***Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!
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I'm wondering what is the best way to store time-series data in an SQL database?? I've done a bit of investigating on the rrdtool (round robin database tool) that is used in a lot of nix based solutions for monitoring network equipment. I have a need to collect performance data from servers and routers and then produces some nice graphs from that data. I'm just not sure who i should store that data without the database growing to some huge size.
Any suggestions?
Hello there,I just want to ask if storing data in dbase is much better than storing it in the file system? Because for one, i am currenlty developing my thesis which uploads a blob.doc file to a web server (currently i'm using the localhost of ASP.NET) then retrieves it from the local hostAlso i want to know if im right at this, the localhost of ASP.NET is the same as the one of a natural web server on the net? Because i'm just thinking of uploading and downloading the files from a web server. Although our thesis defense didn't require us to really upload it on the net, we were advised to use a localhost on our PC's. I'll be just using my local server Is it ok to just use a web server for storing files than a database?
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Hi all,
I have created a report in SSRS 2005 which is being viewed by users from different Time Zones.
I have a dataset which has a field of type datetime (UTC). Now I would like to display this Date according to the User Time Zone.
For example if the date is August 07, 2007 10:00 AM UTC,
then I would like to display it as August 07, 2007 03:30 PM IST if the user Time Zone is IST.
Similarly for other Time Zones it should display the time accordingly.
Is this possible in SSRS 2005?
Any pointers will be usefull...
Thanks in advance
sudheer racha.
Sample Table
USE [Testing]
GO
/****** Object: Table [dbo].[Testing] Script Date: 4/25/2014 11:08:18 AM ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
[Code] ....
It seems to work fine with one million records.
Each primary key is unique, but the begindate is non-unique, and i guess even if i use datetime2 and add nanoseconds, from what i have read, there is a chance that i could have a duplicate datetime since the date is imported via XML from multiple sources.
Is there a way to keep track in real time on how long a stored procedure is running for? So what I want to do is fire off a trace in a stored procedure if that stored procedure is running for over like 5 minutes.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am trying to load previous days data at 3 am via a SSIS job.
The Date variable is initiated as DATEADD("dd",-1, GETDATE()) in the for loop.
Now, as this job runs at 3 am, and I set the variable as GETDATE() - 1, it excluded the data from 12 am to 3 am in the resultset as Date is set as YYYY-MM-DD 03:00:00:000 I need this to be set as YYYY-MM-DD 00:00:00:000
How can i do this?Â
I hope to update a DateTime column value with a Time input parameter.  Poor attempt below but it looks like the @ApptTime param is coming in as 10:45:00.0000000 and I might have an existing @SendOnDate as: 2015-10-05 07:00:00.000...I hope to end up with 2015-10-05 10:45:00.000
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[SendEditUPDATE]
@QuePoolID int=null
,@ApptTime time(7)
,@SendOnDate datetime
[code]...
I am using VS2005 (VB) to develop a PPC WM5.0 Program. And I am using SQLCE 3.0. My PPC Hardware is in 400MHz.
The question is when the program try to insert the first record into sdf database after each time the program started. It takes a long time. Does anyone know why and how can I fix it?
I will load the whole database into a dataset when the program start and do all the "Insert", "Update", "Delete" in this dataset and fill it into database after each action.
cn.Open()
sda = New SqlCeDataAdapter(SQL, cn) 'SQL = Select * From Table
scb = New SqlCeCommandBuilder(sda)
sda.Update(dataset)
cn.Close()
I check the sda.update(), it takes about 0.08s for filling one record into database normally. But:
1. Start the PPC Program
2. Load DB into dataset
3. Create a ONE new record in dataset
4. Fill back to DB
When I take this four steps everytime, the filling time is almost 1s or even more!
Actually, 0.08s is just a normal case. Sometimes, it still takes over 1s to filling back a dataset which only inserted one record when the program is running. (Even all inserted records are exactly the same in data jsut different in the integer key)
However, when I give up the dataset and using the following code:
cn.Open()
Dim cmd As New SqlCeCommand(SQL, cn) ' I have build the insert SQL before (Insert Into Table values(XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX All field)
cmd.CommandType = CommandType.Text
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()
cn.Close()
StartTime = Environment.TickCount
I found that it is still the same that the first inserted record takes more time, but just about 0.2s. And the normal insert time is around 0.02s. It is 4 times faster!!!
SELECTÂ
  CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),attnc_chkin_dt,101) as INDATE,
  CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),attnc_chkin_dt,108) as TimePart
FROM pmt_attendance
o/p
indate   04/18/2015
time part :17:45:00
I need to convert this 17:45:00 to 12 hours date format...
Hi,
We need to select rows from the database that have been recently inserted/updated. We have a main primary table (COMMIT_TEST) and a second update table (COMMIT_TEST_UPDATE). The update table contains the primary key and a LAST_UPDATE field which is a datetime (to tell us when an update occurred). Triggers on the primary table are used to populate the update table.
If we insert or update the primary table in a transaction, we would expect that the datetime of the insert/update would be at the commit, however it seems that the insert/update statement is cached and getdate() is executed at the time of the cache instead of the commit. This causes problems as we select rows based on LAST_UPDATE and a commit may occur later but the earlier insert timestamp is saved to the database and we miss that update.
We would like to know if there is anyway to tell the SQL Server to not execute the function getdate() until the commit, or any other way to get the commit to create the correct timestamp.
We are using default isolation level. We have tried using getdate(), current_timestamp and even {fn Now()} with the same results. SQL Queries that reproduce the problem are provided below:
/* Different functions to get current timestamp €“ all have been tested to produce the same results */
/*
SELECT GETDATE()
GO
SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
GO
SELECT {fn Now()}
GO
*/
/* Use these statements to delete the tables to allow recreate of the tables */
/*
DROP TABLE COMMIT_TEST
DROP TABLE COMMIT_TEST_UPDATE
*/
/* Create a primary table and an UPDATE table to store the date/time when the primary table is modified */
CREATE TABLE dbo.COMMIT_TEST (PKEY int PRIMARY KEY, timestamp) /* ROW_VERSION rowversion */
GO
CREATE TABLE dbo.COMMIT_TEST_UPDATE (PKEY int PRIMARY KEY, LAST_UPDATE datetime, timestamp ) /* ROW_VERSION rowversion */
GO
/* Use these statements to delete the triggers to allow reinsert */
/*
drop trigger LOG_COMMIT_TEST_INSERT
drop trigger LOG_COMMIT_TEST_UPDATE
drop trigger LOG_COMMIT_TEST_DELETE
*/
/* Create insert, update and delete triggers */
create trigger LOG_COMMIT_TEST_INSERT on COMMIT_TEST for INSERT as
begin
declare @time datetime
select @time = getdate()
insert into COMMIT_TEST_UPDATE (PKEY,LAST_UPDATE)
select PKEY, getdate()
from inserted
end
GO
create trigger LOG_COMMIT_TEST_UPDATE on COMMIT_TEST for UPDATE as
begin
declare @time datetime
select @time = getdate()
update COMMIT_TEST_UPDATE
set LAST_UPDATE = getdate()
from COMMIT_TEST_UPDATE, deleted, inserted
where COMMIT_TEST_UPDATE.PKEY = deleted.PKEY
end
GO
/* In our application deletes should never occur so we don€™t log when they get modified we just delete them from the UPDATE table */
create trigger LOG_COMMIT_TEST_DELETE on COMMIT_TEST for DELETE as
begin
if ( select count(*) from deleted ) > 0
begin
delete COMMIT_TEST_UPDATE
from COMMIT_TEST_UPDATE, deleted
where COMMIT_TEST_UPDATE.PKEY = deleted.PKEY
end
end
GO
/* Delete any previous inserted record to avoid errors when inserting */
DELETE COMMIT_TEST WHERE PKEY = 1
GO
/* What is the current date/time */
SELECT GETDATE()
GO
BEGIN TRANSACTION
GO
/* Insert a record into the primary table */
INSERT COMMIT_TEST (PKEY) VALUES (1)
GO
/* Simulate additional processing within this transaction */
WAITFOR DELAY '00:00:10'
GO
/* We expect at this point that the date is written to the database (or at least we need some way for this to happen) */
COMMIT TRANSACTION
GO
/* get the current date to show us what date/time should have been committed to the database */
SELECT GETDATE()
GO
/* Select results from the table €“ we see that the timestamp is 10 seconds older than the commit, in other words it was evaluated at */
/* the insert statement, even though the row could not be read with a SELECT as it was uncommitted */
SELECT * FROM COMMIT_TEST
GO
SELECT * FROM COMMIT_TEST_UPDATE
Any help would be appreciated, we understand we could make changes to the application/database to approximate what we need, but all the solutions have identified suffer from possible performance issues, or could still lead to missing deals (assuming the commit time is larger than some artifical time window).
Regards,
Mark
I need to do a time test for restoring an Azure SQL database from a point in time. Can I automate this through PowerShell.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI need to take a temporary table that has various times stored in a text field (4:30 pm, 11:00 am, 5:30 pm, etc.), convert it to miltary time then cast it as an integer with an update statement kind of like:
Update myTable set MovieTime = REPLACE(CONVERT(CHAR(5),GETDATE(),108), ':', '')
how this can be done while my temp table is in session?
I have a table called employee_punch_record that we use to store employee time clock punches.
The columns are:
employeeid,
punch_timestamp,
punch_type (In / Out),
closed (bit used as status for open or closed pay periods),
ident
Here are some examples of a record:
bkingery62015-10-06 16:59:04.000In0
bkingery72015-10-06 16:59:09.000Out0
bkingery82015-10-06 16:59:13.000In0
bkingery92015-10-06 18:22:44.000Out0
bkingery102015-10-06 18:22:46.000In0
bkingery112015-10-06 18:22:48.000Out0
bkingery122015-10-06 18:22:51.000In0
tfeller52015-10-05 17:00:05.000In0
We are using SQL Server 2008 as our database and use Access as a GUI. I am looking to create a form in Access where employees can access their time card and request changes from management. I want to use the format from the attached screen shot for the form. I pretty much know how to do it all, the only point of complication is trying to figure out the easiest way to get the transaction punch record data on employee_punch_record into a format where I can easily populate the form in the horizontal format you see in the screen shot.
I am not super strong in SQL, but figure I can do it using a formatting table of some sort. quick and easy way to move transaction records into a more horizontally oriented record?
Hi all,
I have a very simple time series model which processing works fine without any problem. However when I run the following query
SELECT
[TimeSeries].[PriceChange],
[TimeSeries].[Symbol],
PredictTimeSeries(PriceChange, -3, 2)
From
[TimeSeries]
WHERE
[TimeSeries].[Symbol] = 'x'
I get the following error:
TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services
------------------------------
Error (Data mining): A time series prediction was requested with a start time further in the past than the internal models of the mining model, TimeSeries, specified in the HISTORIC_MODEL_GAP and HISTORIC_MODEL_COUNT parameters can process.
The following is the excerpt of the minding model script related to the two parameters:
<AlgorithmParameters>
<AlgorithmParameter>
<Name>MISSING_VALUE_SUBSTITUTION</Name>
<Value xsi:type="xsdtring">Previous</Value>
</AlgorithmParameter>
<AlgorithmParameter>
<Name>HISTORIC_MODEL_GAP</Name>
<Value xsi:type="xsd:int">1</Value>
</AlgorithmParameter>
<AlgorithmParameter>
<Name>HISTORIC_MODEL_COUNT</Name>
<Value xsi:type="xsd:int">10</Value>
</AlgorithmParameter>
</AlgorithmParameters>
These HISTORIC_MODEL_GAP (1) and HISTORIC_MODEL_COUNT (10) should accommodate PredictTimeSeries(PriceChange, -3, 2). Could anyone shed some light on this?
we have problems with our SQL Reporting Service 2012 (SSRS) server . We have setup Kerberos delegation between SSRS and the database server (SQL Server Always-on cluster) so users are authenticated down to the database. The issue occurs from time to time that SSRS loses the ability to delegate the user credentials to the database. At this point in time the Report Server logs contain rejected database connections because of ANONYMOUS logon. After restarting SSRS the problem is gone.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHi,
I have a table which has a few fields, one being "datetime_traded". I need to write a query which returns the row which has the closest time (down to second) given a date/time. I'm using MS SQL.
Here's what I have so far:
Code:
select * from TICK_D
where datetime_traded = (select min( abs(datediff(second,datetime_traded , Convert(datetime,'2005-05-30:09:31:09')) ) ) from TICK_D)
But I get an error - "The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value.".
Does anyone know how i could do this? Thanks a lot for any help!
Ok, so I have some horribly convuluted SQL that I would love to optomize. I'm not happy leaving it in it's current state, that's for sure!
I'm currently working on our test bed servers, so obviously my stats are out because of the "crap-ness" (yes, that's the technical term) of the hardware, but still, it should NEVER need to take this long!!
Basically, the issue arises in the nasty join to the career table (one employee can have multiple career lines). Just to make things complicated, employees can have any number of career records on any given date, these can even be input for future career events. The following SQL picks out the latest-current career date for each employee based on the career_date being <= GetDate() and the date of entry for this date being the greatest.
E.g.
career_date | datetime_created
2009-01-01 | 2006-05-05 13:55:21.000
2007-01-01 | 2006-05-05 13:54:18.000
2007-01-01 | 2006-05-05 13:52:55.000
From the above we want to return
2007-01-01 | 2006-05-05 13:54:18.000
SET STATISTICS IO ON
SET STATISTICS TIME ON
SELECT a.sAMAccountNameAs 'sAMAccountName'
, a.userPrincipalNameAs 'userPrincipalName'
, 'TRUE'As 'Modify'
, RTRIM(e.unique_identifier)As 'employeeID'
, RTRIM(e.employee_number)As 'employeeNumber'
, RTRIM(e.known_as)
+ CASE WHEN RTRIM(e.surname) IS NOT NULL THEN
' ' + RTRIM(e.surname) ELSE NULL ENDAs 'displayName'
, RTRIM(e.known_as)As 'givenName'
, RTRIM(e.surname)As 'sn'
, RTRIM(c.job_title)As 'title'
, RTRIM(c.division)As 'company'
, RTRIM(c.department)As 'department'
, RTRIM(l.description)As 'physicalDeliveryOfficeName'
, RTRIM(REPLACE(am.dn,'\',''))As 'manager'
, t.full_mobile
+ CASE WHEN RTRIM(t.mobile_number) IS NOT NULL THEN
' (DD: ' + RTRIM(t.mobile_number) + ')'ELSE NULL END
As 'mobile'
, t.mobile_numberAs 'otherMobile'
, ad.address_ad_countryAs 'c'
, ad.address_ad_address1
+ CASE WHEN ad.address_ad_address2 IS NOT NULL THEN
', ' + ad.address_ad_address2 ELSE NULL END
+ CASE WHEN ad.address_ad_address3 IS NOT NULL THEN
', ' + ad.address_ad_address3 ELSE NULL END
+ CASE WHEN ad.address_ad_address4 IS NOT NULL THEN
', ' + ad.address_ad_address4 ELSE NULL END
+ CASE WHEN ad.address_ad_address5 IS NOT NULL THEN
', ' + ad.address_ad_address5 ELSE NULL ENDAs 'streetAddress'
, ad.address_ad_poboxAs 'postOfficeBox'
, ad.address_ad_cityAs 'l'
, ad.address_ad_CountyAs 'st'
, ad.address_ad_postcodeAs 'postalCode'
, RTRIM(ad.address_ad_telephone) +
CASE WHEN RTRIM(a.othertelephone) IS NOT NULL
AND RTRIM(ad.address_ad_telephone) IS NOT NULL THEN
' (Ext: ' + RTRIM(a.othertelephone) + ')'
ELSE
CASE WHEN RTRIM(a.othertelephone) IS NOT NULL
AND RTRIM(ad.address_ad_telephone) IS NULL THEN
'Ext: ' + RTRIM(a.othertelephone)
ELSE NULL
END
ENDAs 'telephoneNumber'
FROM employee e
LEFT
JOIN career c
ON c.parent_identifier = e.unique_identifier
AND c.career_date =(
SELECTmax(c2.career_date)
FROMpwa_master.career c2
WHEREc2.parent_identifier = c.parent_identifier
ANDc2.career_date <= GetDate()
)
AND c.datetime_created =(
SELECT max(c3.datetime_created)
FROMpwa_master.career c3
WHEREc3.parent_identifier = c.parent_identifier
ANDc3.career_date = c.career_date
)
LEFT
OUTER
JOIN AD_Import am
ON am.employeeNumber = c.manager_number
INNER
JOIN AD_Import a
ON a.employeeID = e.unique_identifier
LEFT
JOIN AD_Telephone t
ON t.unique_identifier = e.unique_identifier
LEFT
JOIN AD_Address ad
ON ad.address_pwa_location = e.location
LEFT
JOIN xlocat l
ON l.code = c.location
WHERE (a.employeeNumber IS NOT NULL
OR a.employeeID IS NOT NULL)
SQL Server Execution Times:
CPU time = 0 ms, elapsed time = 0 ms.
(1706 row(s) affected)
Table 'AD_Import'. Scan count 4, logical reads 106, physical reads 0, read-ahead reads 0.
Table 'AD_Address'. Scan count 1, logical reads 2, physical reads 0, read-ahead reads 0.
Table 'AD_Telephone'. Scan count 2, logical reads 10, physical reads 0, read-ahead reads 0.
Table 'Worktable'. Scan count 868, logical reads 956, physical reads 0, read-ahead reads 0.
Table 'xlocat'. Scan count 2, logical reads 8, physical reads 0, read-ahead reads 0.
Table 'career'. Scan count 5088, logical reads 2564843, physical reads 0, read-ahead reads 0.
Table 'people'. Scan count 1697, logical reads 5253, physical reads 0, read-ahead reads 0.
Table 'Worktable'. Scan count 826, logical reads 914, physical reads 0, read-ahead reads 0.
SQL Server Execution Times:
CPU time = 15203 ms, elapsed time = 8114 ms.
Any advice on what I can do to optomize?
Oh judt to point out that "employee" is a view on the "Table 'people'."
EDIT: I know it's pointing out the obvious, but I'm pulling out the managers "DN" from AD_Import based on the manager_number and employeeNumber matching.
I need a formula to calculate the time (let's say in minutes) between two dates/times.
The problem is that I have to exclude the time between 06 PM and 06 AM and also exclude the time in the weekend (Saturday and Sunday).
I will use this in a couple of reports made in Reporting Services.
If anyone have an algoritm that could be modified for this and is willing to share this I would be very grateful.
Many thanks!
/Per Lissel
Hi all,
I have created several global temp tables to cache some intermediate results ...
However, it seems that after a while those tables will be dropped by SQL Server 2005 automatically (I have not restarted the server and no drop table statement ever executed against those tables). Is this a feature by design? How to make those global temp tables persistence to next service restart?
Thanks,
Ning
I wanted to know how we can handle Time Zones and Daylight Savings Time in SQL Server 2000 as well as 2005.
Any pointers would be helpful.
Pranav
At the moment I already added the DataSet I'm gonna be using. I have 2 date parameters Start Time and End Time.
What I would like to do  for the report is to only pull results greater than 48 hours to the report
How can I accomplish this?
I am reading about the RESTORE command to a point in time using logs, I would like to know the minimum point in time recovery for a backup image using T-SQL command before applying a log restore and what are the log ranges needed for the restore during restore.
 My Version 2008 R2
Hello,
I was working with Microsoft Time Series model (MTS) with some data, when in the mining model viewer, decision tree tab, I realized that the key time variable that I define, it was acting like a split variable.
So, I ask you, this is possible?, because, for me, this should not happen€¦.
After, I review the Data Mining Tutorial by Seth Paul, Jamie MacLennan, Zhaohui Tang and Scott Oveson, and I found, in the Forecasting part, that the key time variable (Time Index) it was acting like a split variable too, in for example, M200 pacific:Quantity and R250 Europe:Quantity.
So people, it€™s possible that a key time variable act like a split variable in a MTS model?
Thanks
Hi!
Well..
There's operable web sync with parameterized filter.
But sometimes the strange errors appear.
Below the list of the errors I got from ComErrorCollection property of MergeSynchronizationAgent instance:
ERROR: -2147199433
SOURCE: Merge Replication Provider(Web Sync Server)
TEXT: The Merge Agent was unable to start the SQL Server Agent job to generate the partitioned snapshot for this subscription. Verify that the SQL Server Agent service is running at the Distributor.
ERROR: 22022
SOURCE: HOST3MAIN
TEXT: SQLServerAgent Error: Request to run job dyn_HOST3MAIN-Customers-Main-2__20061014_14 (from User distributor_admin) refused because the job is already running from a request by User distributor_admin
ERROR: 20633
SOURCE: HOST3MAIN
TEXT: Failed to start the dynamic snapshot job. Verify that the SQLServerAgent service is running on the distributor.
ERROR: 20628
SOURCE: HOST3MAIN
TEXT: Failed to generate dynamic snapshot.
I'm sure that SQL Server Agent is running...
What is the reason and how it can be solved?
Thanks
Paul
I am in need of a format string or simple vb code that can add the local time zone to the end of a time field.. Something like:
9:36 AM EST
9:36 AM PST
This timezone will just come from the machine that the reporting server is on. I don't see this listed as a standard format, and I have come up empty so far in my research - anyone got a solution for this?
Thanks a bunch!
I need to store a user ID of whoever made the last change to a record in a table. I have added a field with a default set to 'suser_sid()'.
Is it wise to store SID's in a database table if you are using NT authentication? My concerns are that if the user is deleted by the NT system administrator then I lose data integrety also if the database is backed up and restored onto a different machine with different users it won't work at all.
I'd be grateful for any help with this.
Rich