I converted a database from MS SQL to MySql using workbench. There is a table that has a column called ActivityDate (datetime(6)) . For some reason, when that column got converted it has a dot in the date like (2013-05-03 11:20:20.420000) .
I want to remove the .420000 or whatever number is after the dot. I tried doing SUBSTRING_INDEX(ActivityDate,'.',1) but that didn't work, the last digits would just be .000000
I also tried UPDATEalerts.activitylogSETActivityDate= date_format(ActivityDate, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%i') WHEREactivitylog.ActivityLogID= 5;
And same issue... I get .000000 at the end
How can I do this?
Simply change the data type of the column to exclude the fractional part.
ALTER TABLE alerts.activitylog MODIFY ActivityDate DATETIME;
The type datetime(6) means 6 digits after the decimal point.
See the MySQL date and time fractional support documentation for details.
If you just want to select the datetime without the ms (like I was when I found this question) then the below CAST does the job:
SELECT CAST(created_at AS DATETIME) AS created_at_without_ms
Related
As title, I'm trying to convert a VARCHAR column in a DATE column, and data is populated in that format "DDMMYYYY" ex. XMAS is "25122022" and in this case the correct formula should be STR_TO_DATE(column, '%d%m%Y')Well, when I execute this query I get an error since in some cases I have values with a "missing" char, I mean, for example, "1012023" when the day is <10 the query fails, cause it checks for "01122023" instead.I could solve this easily by adding a 0 to all fields having length 7, but I'd like to make it more clean.Reading better the usage of STR_TO_DATE I noticed that I could replace %d with %e since the second choice should theorically consider days from 0 to 31 instead of 01 to 31.Unexpectedly the query didn't work and gave me the same erorr at the first instance of a length 7 string.Am I doing something wrong?Thanks in advance.
We can try left padding your date string with zero to a length of 8:
WITH yourTable AS (
SELECT '1012023' AS dt
)
SELECT STR_TO_DATE(LPAD(dt, 8, '0'), '%d%m%Y') AS dt_out -- 2023-01-01
FROM yourTable;
Demo
In my database table, there is a date column i.e. EXPECTED DATE which is in dd-mm-yyyy format, and the datatype of the column is text. Now, I want to convert the format to yyyy-mm-dd. But the date is not changing at all and also when I tried to get the timestamp for the expected date column . I am getting some errors. For date coming I have used this STR_TO_DATE. But the year is not coming like what I expect and the timestamp also.
For example:
select STR_TO_DATE ('30-11-2011', '%d,%m,%y') as date ;
returns a result as
2020-11-30
And for timestamp
select STR_TO_DATE ('2011,11,30 12,30,45', '%y,%m,%d, %H,%I,%S');
I am not getting errors.
Please help me get the correct answers for this problem.
For the first query you need to use the %Y. Remember that it is always better to use "Y" for the years when you are writing a query for year.
SELECT STR_TO_DATE("30,11,2011", "%d,%m,%Y");
For the second one also, you can use '%Y' in the place of '%y'. For minutes, use '%i' not '%I'. For hours and minutes, you can use whatever you like.
SELECT STR_TO_DATE("2011,11,30 12,30,45", "%Y,%m,%d %h,%i,%s");
Refer to the below documentation for more clarification on SQL commands.
You need %Y (capital Y) for the 4 digit year, when using MySQL's STR_TO_DATE. Also, minutes is represented by %i, not %I, the latter which is hours on a 0 to 12 scale. So use:
SELECT STR_TO_DATE('30-11-2011', '%d-%m-%Y');
SELECT STR_TO_DATE('2011,11,30 12,30,45', '%Y,%m,%d %H,%i,%S');
For the first query you need to use the %Y'.
SELECT STR_TO_DATE("30,11,2011", "%d,%m,%Y");
For minutes, use this one only '%i'.
SELECT STR_TO_DATE("2011,11,30 12,30,45", "%Y,%m,%d %h,%i,%s");
I have a text Column in mysql which the data of it represent date and time
the format is like this: 2018-03-06 03:18:17pm
Sometimes this colum instead of date show the word "NO"
I need to remove 2 hours from all of the rows
in the table.
would be happy for a code example.
the table name is: r_238
the col name is:Answer
Thanks for all who answer.
You are in luck. MySQL will recognize that format as a valid datetime, so you can just convert the column to a datetime. The rest is easy:
update r_238
set answer = nullif(answer, 'NO');
alter table r_238 modify column answer datetime;
update r_238
set answer = answer - interval 2 hour;
In the future, use proper types for your columns. datetime values should be stored as datetime, not as a string.
I'm having a problem working with a Navicat Database. I got a column in SQL called fechaNacimiento (Birthdate) that should be a Date type, but instead it's stored as integers (most negative integers):
SELECT fechaNacimiento FROM Registrados
And I'm getting:
fechaNacimiento
-1451678400
-2082829392
-1798746192
-1199221200
-1356984000
-694299600
-1483214400
-1924976592
-1830368592
-2019670992
-1678909392
239252400
1451617200
-879541200
I don't know how this dates where loaded, I just know that inside that negative integer there's a date, and nobody here have any clue about how to spell SQL, so I have nobodoy to ask. If I just cast it to DATETIME, I get all of them as NULL values. Any idea in how to convert this data to Date type?
Numbers like that make me think of Unix times, number of seconds since 1970. If so, you might be able to do:
select dateadd(second, <column>, '1970-01-01')
This would put the negative values sometime before 1970 (for instance, -1678909392 is 1916-10-19). If you have older dates, then that might be the format being used.
These might also be represented as milliseconds. If so:
select dateadd(second, <column>/1000, '1970-01-01')
In this case, -1678909392 represents 1969-12-12.
In MySQL, you would use:
select '1970-01-01' + interval floor(column / 1000) second
I have created MySQL table :
CREATE TABLE EMP(
EMPID INTEGER NOT NULL (5),
SURNAME VARCHAR(25),
SAL INTEGER(5),
JON VARCHAR(25),
START_DATE DATE,
END_DATE DATE,
DEPNO INTEGER(5)
);
with following records:
INSERT INTO EMP
(EMPID,SURNAME,SALARY,JOB,START_DATE,END_DATE,DEPNO)
VALUES
('1','Vorosila','500000','COO','20150101',null,'1');
however I need to change date format from 2015 01 01 to 01 01 2015
Can anybody show me or tell me how to do that ?
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE
DATE values do not have a "format", they are objects that represent instants in time (or entire days, but still independent of formatting).
Formats are applied on input and output, so you just need to apply the correct format, which you can find in the MySQL manual, to the SELECT statement.
You cannot change the default date format in mysql.
I once hoped for the default date to be editable so I wouldn't have to jump through these hoops to get the date I actually wanted, mysql even has a date format system variable, but it is unused. Date Format Mysql - link
What you should really do is store it as the default format Year-Month-Date and then convert it on select.
The first thing I'd suggest is having your date columns as date types, which would give your dates the following format '2015-01-01'.
If you do this then you can use DATE_FORMAT - link - the second value in the DATE_FORMAT function allows you to customise the returned date, and there are many different thing you can do with this if you look at the link:
SELECT
DATE_FORMAT(`START_DATE`,'%d-%m-%Y')
AS `START_DATE`
FROM ...
The other option you have is to store your dates in the format that you already want as a char or varchar column.
HOWEVER, as should be obvious, this column will not be treated as storing dates, and so will not give you the correct comparisons in a where clause when using > < BETWEEN or the correct ordering in an order by clause. It is after all just a string of numbers in this case.
However you can then use STR_TO_DATE - link if you did need to use a where or order by on this column to change it back to a date within the query - in this case the second value is the custom format of your 'dates' in the column. Keep in mind with a where you will need to compare it with the correct mysql format as shown below:
SELECT
`START_DATE`
FROM table
WHERE STR_TO_DATE(`START_DATE`,'%d-%m-%Y') BETWEEN '2015-01-01' and '2016-01-01'
In MySQL you can change the format of a date using DATE_FORMAT method which is similar to to_char in Oracle.
DATE_FORMAT(SYSDATE(), '%DD-%MM-%YYYY');
For more information about specifiers check this thread http://www.sqlines.com/oracle-to-mysql/to_char_datetime
You can do what you probably want by creating a view and referring to that instead of the (underlying) table.
CREATE VIEW emp_view AS
SELECT empid,
surname,
sal,
jon,
date_format(start_date, '%d-%m-%Y') as start_date,
date_format(end_date, '%d-%m-%Y') as end_date,
depno
FROM emp;
Note that this changes the type of the date columns to varchar, so comparisons will no longer work as expected:
SELECT * FROM emp_view WHERE start_date > '01-12-1924'; // fails!