Questions tagged [timestamp]
For questions about timestamp data types and/or recording a particular point in time.
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Fix the timezone of timestamp in MySQL
From my misunderstanding, I stored time as timestamps and thought they were stored as UTC+0. But I moved into a different country and found the timestamps were stored in the local time.
The issue is ...
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in which timezone Psql displays timestamp without timezone (PostgreSQL)?
What I mean is the following: if I create a timestamp without timezone (timestamp) column and store there some value, internally microseconds are stored, but when issuing select this is converted to a ...
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How can I add timestamp into my table when I use Write-DbaDbTableData?
I am trying to use one table to store the SQL server disk space checking data by dbatools:
$allservers_PRD | Get-DbaDiskSpace | Write-DbaDbTableData -SqlInstance MySQL2019 -Database SQL_DBA_TASK -...
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SQL - Spilt timestamp into multiple rows
I am dealing with data that needs to be looked at on a shift-to-shift basis (8:00:00 to 20:00:00 and its reciprocal are the two shifts) There are instances where a timestamp (one row) will span longer ...
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Correcting wrong timezones/timestamps in existing tables
I did a huge mistake because I didn't know how the TIMESTAMPTZ datatype works in postgresql.
We need to store sensor data from a handful of different sources.
We have a few tables with two timestamp ...
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Using Postgres param in a function
I'm trying to create a few functions to make the SQL queries between my SQLite and Postgres DB's the same.
One thing I would like to do is change a timestamp to a double via a function such as:
create ...
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MySQL Best approach for recording last update timestamp for every column and every row
This question is about possible approaches for time stamping every column of every row in a table.
I have a table with a small number of rows (fewer than 200 and not likely to grow much larger). Each ...
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Column with timestamp datatype not having proper value
I am using PostgreSQL v9.5
A column utime with datatype timestamp without timezone is not having proper values for some rows as given below:
select utime from mytable where utime is not null order by ...
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Postgres epoch from current_timestamp
I've learned that epoch (UNIX timestamp) is a unique independent amount, so I am baffled by output I get from the following queries:
select extract( epoch from current_timestamp::timestamp with time ...
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Querying the most recent records with two fields: datestamp and timestamp
I have a table called airquality that has records for air quality measurements taken on different days and times within those days. These date/timestamps are stored in two different columns: validdate ...
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Timestamp with no time zone - if I'm ok with UTC at all times, is there any downside to using it?
Timestamp with time zone vs timestamp with no time zone.
I'm aware that timestamptz is the same as timestamp no time-zone + (time-zone difference) that gets added upon saving a value in a database. ...
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Convert two integers into timestamp
How do I convert two integers, one for date and one for time, into a timestamp?
Given 20200304 and 1046, return a timestamp for April 3, 2020, 10:46 AM.
Given 20200304 and 946, return a timestamp for ...
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Syntax error around converting timestamps to time
I am writing a function that requires some comparison between the difference date and time parts of the timestamp data type. However it keeps running into syntax errors and I cannot find out what is ...
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Migrating timezone timestamps
I am trying to migrate this node library https://github.com/LocalSEOGuide/lighthouse-reporter from Postgres to MySQL and getting an error error: ER_TRUNCATED_WRONG_VALUE: Incorrect datetime value: '...
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How can I output a legible timestamp from “1583981745.335346” (stored in a 'double' field type) via a select statement?
I have a table within a WordPress installation that stores timestamps in a format that I do not recognize, nor can I figure out how to translate it. In the MySQL database, it appears as "1583981745....
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Can I refuse inserts/updates with timestamps without time-zone in postgresql?
I use exclusively timestamps with time-zone in PostgreSQL, but I just noticed something slightly worrying: If a client inserts/updates a record with a naïve time-stamp, PostgreSQL falls back to a ...
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mongodump command with timestamp query
When I execute the below query in mongodb shell, it gives me the number of records updated after the mentioned timestamp.
db.getCollection('oplog.rs').find({"ts":{"$gt":Timestamp(1582823397,2)}})
I ...
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Storing Large Quantities of Time Series
What is the recommended (type) of database design for storing large amounts of time-series data?
The dataset:
2 million time-series;
Each of the time-series contains around 500 timestamps;
At ...
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Update record with converted epoch timestamp from another column
I'm trying to convert epoch data in one column (timestamp_epoch) to a legitimate timestamp in another column (timestamp) for every record in a table. In reading the PostgreSQL Documentation it ...
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Preserving timezones explicitly in postgres
I've been doing quite some research on different ways of 'seeing' time and how to properly map it in Postgres but I'm still not certain on what to actually use. Several articles recommend or rather ...
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fixing broken convert_tz() in Mysql?
I come across the documentation for convert_tz() in MySQL and it says
If the value falls out of the supported range of the TIMESTAMP type when converted from from_tz to UTC, no conversion occurs. ...
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Why mysql throws “invalid default value for field” only when two or more timestamp fields exist in the create statement?
In mysql 5.7.28 I create a table like this:
create table t1 (
id int not null,
d1 timestamp)
engine=innodb;
which works fine and creates d1 as non-null with default value current_timetamp,on update ...
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Add timestamp to field automatically in PostgreSQL
I created a small database in PostgreSQL to manage the data for my thesis. I just started with Postgres, so this is probably a newbie question. I added a column in several tables, that is supposed to ...
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Indexing only for most recent entries in PostgreSQL
Consider the following table:
|-----------------------------------------------------|
| raffle |
|----|---------|----------|-----|---------------------|
| ...
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Store timeseries data in normal SQL database
I have got historic data of around 20 machine sensors with a time resolution of one second stored in csv-files which need to be imported to a SQL database prior to further data handling and analysis.
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current_timestamp at time zone 'UTC' SQL Server equivalent
What is the equivalent of the Postgres "current_timestamp at time zone 'UTC'" in SQL Server?
How do I select the current timestamp in UTC in SQL Server?
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Get durations from time series table where some condition holds consecutively
Given a table where each row has a timestamp and some measurement, how can I get all of the intervals during which the measurement consecutively satisfies some condition?
Here's a SQLfiddle (not sure ...
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How can I order rows returned by the RETURNING clause of a DML statement?
I am using this statement to get all the rows ordered by timestamp in ascending order
DELETE FROM @tableName
WHERE id = ANY (
SELECT id
FROM @tableName
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Why can't I insert this value using timestamp but can with datetime?
I want to insert this value: 2020-03-29 01:00:00
If I set up a column called date with data type datetime I can insert the value. But if I use the data type timestamp I cannot insert and get an error ...
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Does timestamp protocol following thomas's write rule allow non-view-serializable schedules in some cases?
I have come across the following line in a text book (Database System Concepts
Textbook by Avi Silberschatz, Henry F. Korth, and S. Sudarshan $6e$) page no. 686:
Thomas’ write rule allows schedules ...
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PosgreSQL query slow when sorting on indexed timestamp colum
I've the following issue: the table below:
CREATE TABLE public.current_read
(
id bigint NOT NULL DEFAULT nextval('current_read_id_seq'::regclass),
cube_id bigint NOT NULL,
end_time ...
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Generate random timestamp taking into account shift to daylight saving time
I want to generate random big data in MariaDB.
One of this columns is random timestamp which I generate like this:
select (current_timestamp
- interval (rand() * 60 * 60 * 24 * 365 * 10) ...
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TIMESTAMP OR DateUpdate
I want to implement incremental ETL on some of my sql server tables, so I need a new column like UpdatedDate to track change dates of my records. I want to transfer only updated and inserted records, ...
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Why isn't it possible to cast to a timestamp in an index in PostgreSQL?
I am working with a JSON document which I receive from an external source. In this document, there is a timestamp property which corresponds to the textual format of a timestamp PostgreSQL data type. ...
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Parse a unix/epoch value as a `TIMESTAMP` in PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL's COPY command is useful to quickly import lots of data, and the data must be in the textual representation for the datatype.
I am importing lots of data, includes a timestamp column, but ...
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Is there an underling difference between TIMESTAMP and ROWVERSION when creating columns with each?
I'm having problems with SSDT detecting a change to a "TIMESTAMP" column where both the target column and model.xml column definition are of type "TIMESTAMP". When this happens, the following alter ...
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Recognizing a timestamp
I am looking at some sample data and I noticed that the transaction datetime is 42,814,662,041,308. Can anyone help me convert it please?
I have already tried converting using Epoch Unix time
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DatetimeFieldOverflow when inserting more than three decimals precision [closed]
TIMESTAMP type should be fine (docs)
timestamp [ (p) ] [ without time zone ] 8 bytes both date and time (no time zone) 1 microsecond / 14 digits
Create the table like:
CREATE TABLE IF NOT ...
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how to use the same timestamp along several tables?
Lets say a have 2 tables and both have a datetime column.
On table A, on datetime column, lets say, ts1, is non null, default is CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and on update CURRENT_TIMESTAMP;
The other table, B,...
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Column with Default value as Sum of TIMESTAMP
I have a table which has 2 columns ( JobDate , RecordTime)
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JobDate | RecordTime | SumCol
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2019-07-20 | 2019-07-...
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How do I know if my PostgreSQL is up do date with DST rules?
Recently (2019-04-25) brazilian government ended the use of daylight savings time all around the country.
In my current project I rely on PostgreSQL to do timezone conversions and analytics based on ...
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Keep track of the last read record in MySQL
I have 2 databases in MySQL:
1) An input Latitude-Longitude_dB ('latlong_db', henceforth): It has the latitude and longitude of each reading from a GPS tracking device.
2) A Weather_db: I read the ...
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Get time from Unix milliseconds timestamp
My MySQL version is 5.6; it has a FROM_UNIXTIME function. But it works for timestamps with 10 digits: 1447430881.
mysql> SELECT FROM_UNIXTIME(1447430881);
-> '2015-11-13 10:08:01'
Now ...
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Should I split timestamp parts into separate columns?
I am building a PostgreSQL database and I have created a timestamp table, where the primary key is the timestamp itself (e.g. id: Fri Apr 13 2018 15:00:19). The database is supposed to be later ...
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Oracle: Casting timestamp as date and comparing result
I don‘t really understand what cast(timestamp as date) is doing. I am on Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0.
select cast(to_timestamp('20190516 08:00:00', 'yyyymmdd HH24:MI:SS') ...
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Creating index on TIMESTAMP column to use with range operators
TLDR: Can I create an index that's used by the following WHERE clause:
WHERE foo_date <@ tsrange('2018-01-01', '2018-02-01')
Let's say I have a table like this:
CREATE TABLE foo
(
foo_id ...
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In mysql system_time_zone doesn't reflects DST changes, isn't it a bug?
If a Ubuntu machine was in 'PST' timezone and on 10 march 2019 at 2:00 AM its timezone gets changed to 'PDT' timezone to accommodate DST changes then does this change is immediately reflected in ...
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Is there way to get transaction commit timestamp in Postgres?
I have data-pulling functionality that once in 5 seconds grabs all the data from Postgres table basing on modified_timestamp column. It works the following way:
SELECT * FROM my_table WHERE ...
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FUNCTION BEFORE TRIGGER INEXISTENT OPERATOR date > = double precision
In the 'pubblicazione' table I want to insert some fields of the tuple contained in the 'legge_approvata' table, but to do this the promulgation date must be in the same month and year as the date of ...
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Return hours, minutes and seconds left if column wasn't updated
I currently have this query:
UPDATE MyTable
SET next_update = now() at time zone 'utc'
WHERE next_update::timestamp < now() at time zone 'utc' - interval '1 day';
Which updates the column ...
