So I'm trying to query all the same dates but this code won't work
SELECT * FROM schedTBL WHERE CONVERT(varchar, DueDateTime, 120) LIKE " + "'%"+ text + "%'"
it returns no such column:varchar
This looks like a SQL statement for SQL Server, not SQLite...
Assuming you are storing dates in field DueDateTime without the hour part, something like this should do:
SELECT * FROM schedTBL WHERE DueDateTime = '2016-09-24'
Or you'll need like if you also have hour values. That depends on how you are actually storing dates/times in your SQLite DB.
Try formatting the date in Java and send it as a parameter to your query.
SQLite doesn't handle dates like SQL Server.
See:
SQLite Date And Time Functions
In SQLite, date values would be formatted with the strftime() function, or for this particular format, with the date() function:
... WHERE date(DueDateTime) LIKE ...
But this works only for supported date formats.
If the values in your database use an unsupported format, your only choice is to convert them, or to try to match the actual string:
... WHERE DueDateTime LIKE ...
Related
I have a database that contains upcoming births. The file has 5 records in it with due dates of (11-15-2016,10-15-2016, 12-14-2016, 12-13-2016 and 02-12-2017)
The query is
SQLiteDatabase db = dbhelper.getReadableDatabase();
String QueryPart1="SELECT inseminations._ID, inseminations.patient_id, inseminations.date_due ";
String QueryPart2="FROM inseminations ";
String QueryPart3="WHERE inseminations.date_due>=? ";
String QueryPart4="ORDER BY inseminations.date_due ASC";
String FinalQuery=QueryPart1+QueryPart2+QueryPart3+QueryPart4;
mCursor = db.rawQuery(FinalQuery ,howToFilter);'
howToFilter is
String howToFilter[]={ExpectedDateDue};
ExpectedDateDue is
ExpectedDateDue = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy").format(new Date());
The query retrieves all records except for the one from 2017, the listview is sorted correctly, it's as if the query is only taking those records where the month is after the current month instead of the entire date.
Comparison operators on text in SQLite use lexicographic order. What this means, for example, is "01-01-2017" is less than "05-04-2016". SQLite has no indication that these strings represent moments in time that should be compared chronologically.
In general, I dislike using strings for timestamps in my databases for reasons like this. I much prefer to store timestamps as long values representing seconds (or milliseconds) since epoch. It's far easier to compare timestamps this way, and converting to and from date strings is simple enough either in SQLite or in Java.
If that's not feasible for some reason, then I suggest you alter the way you store your date strings in the database. Instead of MM-dd-yyyy, use yyyy-MM-dd. In this format, lexicographic comparisons will work; using the same example as before, "2017-01-01" is greater than "2016-05-04". Additionally, this format is acceptable as input to SQLite's various date and time functions, should you decide to use them.
If you can't alter the way the dates are stored, you will need to somehow convert them into a format that is comparable in the way you expect. You could use SQLite's substr() and || (concatenation) functions in the query to convert the date from MM-dd-yyyy to yyyy-MM-dd format. The code in this answer demonstrates this.
I am trying to do some datetime aritmethics in Sqllite. I have a table with two rows defined as type DATETIME. These fields are called LOG_FROM and LOG_TO. In a query on this table I try to do the following:
SELECT SUM(LOG_FROM - LOG_TO) AS TIMESPENT FROM LOG_TABLE WHERE X=Y;
This subtraction inside the SUM function does not work as intended. It will always return the number 0. I read the data via a cursor.getString.
When I store dates in the table I convert them to strings on the format yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss
SQLite ignores column data types. Your date strings are strings.
Your date format is supported by the built-in date functions, so you can use them to convert the dates to numbers.
Assuming that you want the result to be a number of days, use julianday:
SELECT SUM(julianday(LOG_TO) - julianday(LOG_FROM)) ...
The time format in my table is like this : 02:59:00 (hh:mm:ss).
Have been trying to make the query like this:
SQL = "select * from Events Where date = '"+tomorrowDate+"'
AND city = '"+mCity+"'
order by strftime('%H:%M:%S',start_time) ASC;";
However the time order still seems random. What am I doing wrong?
Looking at the docs, strftime is used to convert datetime to the specified format. You should be able to accomplish the ordering with just:
order by time(start_time) asc;
or
order by datetime(start_time) asc; # if date is included
without needing to convert the datetime format.
I have a column in android sqlite database table. The values in the column are like:
2011/06/01
2011/06/02
2011/06/05
2011/06/10
2011/06/11
2011/06/13
2011/06/15
2011/06/16
2011/06/25
2011/06/26
I have a string today="2011/06/27"
Now I want to delete those rows whose column value is older than 5 days from today.
How to modify the code to achieve this?
return db.delete(DATABASE_TABLE,where date="", null) > 0;
You have to store your dates in a other format, check the date function of SQLite. Use YYYY-MM-DD instead of YYYY/MM/DD. You already got an order on your dates defined by its string representation. So you can use the date function of SQLite to select the correct rows.
Dates older than 5 days would be queried like this.
... WHERE datecolumn < date('now', '-5 days') ...
There is no date type in sqllite
you just store a data represented value as a string or int
then use the date based functions of sqllite to get the values
You should be using the stored procedure rather than writing the service. It will make easier for your application to automatically update the records.
See link: http://searchoracle.techtarget.com/answer/Time-based-stored-procedure-to-check-table-and-update-old-records
Another solution is to use date instead of string. When you run your service then fetch data as Date and then you can make the simple comparison.
I am using SQLite database for my application.
The Table Structure Goes Like :
_id : integer primary key
name : text
day : date
I am able to store date in format : dd-mmmmm-yyyy eg. 15-June-2011
But when i tried to retrieve all records filtered by date from the database it returns me null.
database.query(DATABASE_TABLE, new String[] { "strftime('%d-%mm-%Y',date('now'))","strftime('%d-%m-%Y',"+KEY_DAY+")" },
"strftime('%d-%m-%Y',date('now'))=" + KEY_DAY , null,null,null,null,null);
It didnt match with anyrow's date even though there were some matching dates.
I have already gone thru documentation of SQLite. But didn find any solution yet.
I want to have something like :
select * from table where day=curdate();
How can i do the same task in SQLite ?.
(Yes I am flexible to change the format of date stored in Dateabase)
What are other alternatives for the same task ?.
In java programming you can convert any date format into long (time in milliseconds) and viceversa. My opinion is while storing format the date into long format in java and then store long value of date in database. also while retrieving you can retrieve the long value and then format that as per your expected date format. I have been using this type of logic for several application.
Thanks
Deepak.
The function strftime('%d-%m-%Y',date('now')) returns a string with the month in numeric format (from 01 to 12). As far as I can tell from the docs, there is no format specifier to return the full name of the month.
I think you'll have to store your dates using numerical month specifiers instead of names.