Questions tagged [integer]
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Integer number in the 700000s as the days from year 1: how can this be cast in tsql to a date and back if the oldest datetime date is 1753-01-01?
I fell upon an integer format for dates for which I also know the date, but I do not know how to get to that date in TSQL and I also do not know how to get to the integer if I have the date:
700444 -&...
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SET BIGINT fieldname value to 0 automatically if inserting empty string
How do I do something like :
INSERT INTO tablename SET customer_id = '' WHERE <condition>;
customer_id is BIGINT NULL Default NULL
But when I execute SET customer_id = '' it gives
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Why isn't it trivial to create a virtual integer timestamp column from a TIMESTAMP column in MySQL?
There's no way to extract an integer timestamp from a TIMESTAMP column in a virtual column context in MySQL because UNIX_TIMESTAMP is not allowed in virtual columns. Why isn't this a trivial task?
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How to subtract from the current timestamp the number of hours stored in a column?
I am trying to retrieve data from a column with integer values by getting the difference between the current_timestamp and the values in the column. This works in DB2 by simply stating the value as ...
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Check int4range includes number using B-tree index
I have a table with two important columns: value and m_range, where value:
CREATE TABLE m_filter (
value BIGINT NOT NULL,
m_range ...
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Compare signed integers as if they were unsigned
I am using PostgreSQL to store 64 bits IDs. The IDs are unsigned and make full use of all their bits (including the first one). To store said IDs, I am currently converting them to signed integers ...
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Getting the max ID of integer columns in databases in Postgres 9.6/12
I am looking to get the max ID of each integer column in our databases servers.
The function I currently use:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION intpkmax() RETURNS
TABLE(schema_name name, table_name name, ...
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Calculating Average Value of JSONB array in Postgres
I have a column called "value" in my "answers" table.
| value |
|---------|
| [1,2] |
| [1] |
| [1,2,3] |
The type of "value" is "jsonb".
I want to get ...
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How to make MySQL 8 alert when integer overflow happens during INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY?
Let's consider we have a simple table with auto-incrementing integer ID and some unique column:
CREATE TABLE `test` (
`id` int unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`value` tinyint DEFAULT NULL,
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Will SQL Server "int" datatype reliably truncate (and not round) decimal values when they are input?
I have a user with software that sometimes sends back a UNIT's ID as an integer(ex. 1000), and sometimes with a small decimal value appended (ex. 1000.001). The software automatically generates MSSQL ...
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How does Postgres handle integer data of different sizes in the same column?
If I have a bigint column and in one row store 1 and in another store 999999999999, will these take up different amounts of space on disk?
Will Postgres have an easier time doing queries and ...
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Are there any reasons to not use smallint when it fits the data?
Since PostgreSQL doesn't have 1-byte tinyint, the second best option would be smallint. However, I've read from various posts that it may actually be slower because CPU's are optimized to operate on ...
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How to import blanks as nulls instead of zeros while importing txt using wizard
I'm using the Import Wizard to load a text file and need blanks in integer fields to be nulls, but only zeros are inserted.
How to import it properly?
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Text string stored in SQLite Integer column?
I'm a database novice looking at an SQLite database which appears to be storing text in an integer column. Here's an example session at the sqlite3 command line:
sqlite> .schema mytable
CREATE ...
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Numeric Latitude & Longitude values are rounded up when querying SQL Server Database
Developing an application that is using Google Maps. Latitude and longitude values are stored in the table as the correct value. However when they are pulled into a view the value is rounded to the ...
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Do I lose data if I change from INT to TINYINT
I have a database (Engine InnoDB) that was setup by someone else. I noticed that one column contains data between 1 and 107 at this moment, and it is highly unlikely to further increase much.
As it ...
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Rounding issues?
Try this:
create table test (f float);
insert into test values (330.0);
commit;
select (8 + 330.0/60)::int; --14
select (8 + f/60)::int from test; --14
select (9 + 330.0/60)::int; --15
select (9 + f/...
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Looping through string, adding all numbers e.g. '123' = 1+2+3, demo with working loop included
This works to output the string 123456 as:
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declare @string varchar(20)
declare @index int
declare @len int
declare @char char(1)
set @string = '123456'
set @index = 1
set @len= ...
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Should I be concered by large SERIAL values?
I have a Django application that uses PostgreSQL to analyze data from tweets. The data set increases by thousands of records with each request. I am using the database primarily as a cache, so I had ...
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Expanding contractions/number ranges into separate records [closed]
I am planning the migration of a directory of image files plus a FileMaker-database containing the corresponding metadata into an Imagic IMS database (formerly known as ImageAccess). The vendor ...
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