I am trying to query an SQL table using a time range via the statement below.
SELECT columnName FROM tableName WHERE time between 2013-05-03 22:47:02 and 2013-11-19 22:47:02
Where the column 'time' is of type TIMESTAMP, an example entry is
2013-09-07 15:00:00
I am getting the response that there is a syntax problem can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
You need single quotes around the datetime values.
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I code in the SQL, but I want to change the date format from default of My SQL to different format "DD/MM/YYYY" to use this format to code, but I recieved an error.
More about version of SQL:
SQL: My SQL Workbench 8.0.30 build 2054668
Window 11 Pro
Language: English
So, how can I change the date format or what is the true type of "dmy"? Please help me.
This is code that I used:
set dateformat dmy
And error is:
"Error Code: 1064. You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'dmy' at line 1"
At the moment, we don't really know the reason why you want to change the date format, but I have a couple of assumption:
You want to insert date data from front end into the table but couldn't do so due to the mismatched date format.
You want the end output to show the date format of DD/MM/YYYY instead.
Although, it may look like you need to change the table column date format, there's a way to avoid that operation entirely. However, since you've mentioned changing from YYYY/MM/DD in your title, I'm not sure if your date column is actually DATE datatype because the default MySQL should be YYYY-MM-DD. Nonetheless, I'll address the matter in this answer altogether.
Modify the date format in query and leave the table date column datatype as it is:
From DD\MM\YYYY to MySQL DATE datatype format YYYY-MM-DD
... STR_TO_DATE(data, '%d/%m/%Y')
.. from YYYY-MM-DD to DD/MM/YYYY
... DATE_FORMAT(data, '%d/%m/%Y')
You can use any of that anywhere in a query; whether in SELECT or WHERE.
If "in query" is not what you want and you still want to update the table:
Well, you have two options here:
Directly modify the column datatype then update the value:
ALTER TABLE mytable MODIFY COLUMN date_col VARCHAR(255);
UPDATE mytable SET date_col =DATE_FORMAT(date_col , '%d/%m/%Y');
Or you can add another column, populate the desired date format there and keep the original date column as it is:
ALTER TABLE mytable ADD COLUMN my_date VARCHAR(255);
UPDATE mytable SET my_date =DATE_FORMAT(date_col , '%d/%m/%Y');
this way you have the option to directly use MySQL date functions on the default MySQL date column without the hassle of converting your desired date format into the default before you can use date functions. What I'm saying is something like this:
DAY(mysql_default_dateformat)
is similar to
DAY(STR_TO_DATE(your_dateformat, '%d/%m/%Y'))
which means that you can use DAY() (date function) on the default date format directly without the need to convert what is not default first.
Here's demo fiddle examples
We are storing datetime in a column on our MySQL database, formatted in TEXT, but when our datetime is supposed to look like below:
'xxxx-xx-xx 00:00:00'
The time is deleted or not show on our datetime, and therefore our datetime, at that specific time, only contains the date:
'xxxx-xx-xx'
What we want is first of all to figure out why this is occurring, but for now we need to edit every row, and make sure the datetime is also showing the time. We have tried to change the impacted rows by using this query:
UPDATE table SET TIME(col_datetime) = '00:00:00' WHERE LENGTH(TIME(col_datetime)) = 0;
Above query should update the time on the datetime for col_datetime, where length of time is 0. Unfortunately, we receive an error, and we can't run the query. This is the error:
You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '(time_start) = '00:00:00' WHERE LENGTH(TIME(time_start)) = 0' at line 2
How can we change time on our datetime, where time is not shown?
Don't store dates as strings. Instead, you want to use the datetime datatype: it has a time part, that defaults to 00:00:00 when not specified.
Here is a small conversion script for that purpose:
alter table mytable add col_datetime_new datetime;
update mytable set col_datetime_new = col_datetime;
alter table mytable drop col_datetime;
alter table mytable change column col_datetime_new col_datetime datetime;
This leverages the fact that you are using format YYYY-MM-DD in your string dates, so conversion to datetime is seemless.
I'm currently migrating a table with dates in VARCHAR columns to a new table with DATE columns. I managed to sanitize the string values in the old table to the format "YYYY-MM-DD" but when I try to perform the insert I got an error with the date "2006-04-31" because that April only had 30 days (was a typo when it was registered),
My question is: how can I set to NULL the column when the date is invalid without getting an error? My SQL is the following:
INSERT INTO newFancyTable (created_at)
SELECT str_to_date(created, '%Y-%m-%d') FROM oldCrappyTable;
And the error is the following:
Error Code: 1292. Incorrect date value: '2006-04-31' for column 'created_at' at row 1
Thanks
UPDATE
I also tried using the following approach:
INSERT INTO newFancyTable (created_at)
SELECT CAST(created AS DATE) FROM oldCrappyTable;
With the same error, and trying to update the oldCrappyTable would return the same:
UPDATE oldCrappyTable SET created = CAST(created AS DATE);
Both return:
Error Code: 1292. Incorrect datetime value: '2006-04-31'
UPDATE 2
At last, I used multiple CASEs to isolate that invalid dates, in sum they were only 5 of them,
Nevertheless, the issue can be reproduced by doing:
CREATE TABLE dates_temp (
test_date DATE DEFAULT NULL
) ENGINE=MEMORY;
INSERT INTO dates_temp
SELECT STR_TO_DATE("2006-04-31", '%Y-%m-%d');
DROP TABLE dates_temp;
A possible workaround is to turn off strict mode, either for the whole server, for a particular session, or for just a few statements. For example:
set #old_sql_mode = ##sql_mode;
set sql_mode = '';
-- Run some statements which may result in error
set sql_mode = #old_sql_mode;
Additional Info
MySQL Documentation
In addition to #EduardoDennis answer use NULLIF to filter out zero dates:
INSERT INTO newFancyTable (created_at)
SELECT nullif(str_to_date(created, '%Y-%m-%d'), from_days(0)) FROM oldCrappyTable;
See my full answer here.
I have a table called table1 with three columns, one of which is Date_Of_Call which is of datetime type with the data in PDT. I basically need to convert the data from PDT to UTC and put the UTC converted dates into a new column in the existing table. I added a new column with:
alter table table1 ADD Date_Of_Call_UTC DATETIME;
I am able to get the proper time conversion with this select statement:
select CONVERT_TZ(Date_Of_Call, '-7:00', '-0:00') from table1;
The issue I am having is trying to use an update command to take the results of the select statement and put them in the new Date_Of_Call_UTC column. Any thoughts of how to do this?
I tried the below statement and a few variations but can't quite figure out what I need to do:
update table1 set table1.Date_Of_Call_UTC = (select CONVERT_TZ(Date_Of_Call, '-7:00', '-0:00') from table1);
Any assistance is appreciated!
this one should work:
update table1
set table1.Date_Of_Call_UTC = CONVERT_TZ(Date_Of_Call, '-7:00', '-0:00');
NOTE: dates are usually stored already as UTC in mysql, but during output they can be displayed with offset applied, read about it: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/datetime.html and http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/time-zone-support.html
I have a table with a DATETIME column.
I would like to SELECT this datetime value and INSERT it into another column.
I did this (note: '2011-12-18 13:17:17' is the value the former SELECT gave me from the DATETIME field):
UPDATE products SET former_date=2011-12-18 13:17:17 WHERE id=1
and get
1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax;
check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version
for the right syntax to use near '13:17:17 WHERE itemid=1' at line 1
Ok, I understand it's wrong to put an unquoted string in there, but is DATETIME just a string in the first place?
What do I put in there?
All I want is reliably transfer the existing value over to a new datetime field...
EDIT:
The reason I ask is: I have this special definition, DATETIME, and somehow I thought it gives me some security and other advantages when handling dates. Now it seems it is simply a specialized VARCHAR, so to speak.
Thanks for your answers, it seems this is indeed the intended behaviour.
According to MySQL documentation, you should be able to just enclose that datetime string in single quotes, ('YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS') and it should work. Look here: Date and Time Literals
So, in your case, the command should be as follows:
UPDATE products SET former_date='2011-12-18 13:17:17' WHERE id=1
Try
UPDATE products SET former_date=20111218131717 WHERE id=1
Alternatively, you might want to look at using the STR_TO_DATE (see STR_TO_DATE(str,format)) function.
for MYSQL try this
INSERT INTO table1(myDatetimeField)VALUES(STR_TO_DATE('12-01-2014 00:00:00','%m-%d-%Y %H:%i:%s');
verification-
select * from table1
output- datetime= 2014-12-01 00:00:00
If you don't need the DATETIME value in the rest of your code, it'd be more efficient, simple and secure to use an UPDATE query with a sub-select, something like
UPDATE products SET t=(SELECT f FROM products WHERE id=17) WHERE id=42;
or in case it's in the same row in a single table, just
UPDATE products SET t=f WHERE id=42;