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.
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I'm comparing two dates in android sqlite database
I stored dates in the format
YYYY-MM-DD
Cursor cursor=db.rawQuery("SELECT * FROM "+tableName+" WHERE SALESDATE BETWEEN '2020-1-01' AND '2020-2-01';",null);
It gives result with dates of month 10, 11 and 12 along with the dates between above specified dates.
I would like to know if it is a bug or is there any mistake in my code.
The problem here is that your date literals are in a non standard (and likely incorrect) format. Appreciate that the following inequality holds true:
'2020-10-01' > '2020-1-01' AND '2020-10-01' < '2020-2-01'
This is true because the text 10 is lexicographically larger than just 1, but also less than 2. To avoid this problem, use proper date literals:
String sql = "SELECT * FROM " + tableName + " WHERE SALESDATE BETWEEN '2020-01-01' AND '2020-02-01';"
Cursor cursor = db.rawQuery(sql, null);
Note that SQLite does not actually have a formal date type. Thus, it is very important to always store your dates in SQLite using a proper ISO format.
You should store your Date as long value in database. Simple new Date().getTime() gives you this value and new Date(long value) returns it back. So you can make such queries easy.
But what I can suggest is to:
Export your table to CSV,
Change the date values to a proper SQLite TimeString and
Re-import the CSV after deleting the original table.
Then, you can run a query like:
SELECT * FROM tableName WHERE SALESDATE BETWEEN '2020-01-01 00:00:00' AND '2020-02-01 23:59:59'
I'm working on an app where Dates are entered in the Room database as Strings, with a SimpleDateFormat fixed to '%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S' (e.g. "26/12/2018 10:33:31").
Without changing the structure of the database, I'd like to query some results, ordered by date. This should probably look like this (inside a Dao):
#Query("SELECT * FROM results ORDER BY stringToDate(startTime) DESC LIMIT :count")
List<Results> getLast(int count);
Unfortunately, this throws a compile error: "no such function: stringToDate", no matter if the function exists, even if it is annotate as TypeConverter in due form.
Moreover, since String is accepted as a Room type, I'm not event sure I could use TypeConverter here to begin with.
Is there any way I could order by Date as String without modifying the database structure ?
Try:
#Query("SELECT * FROM results ORDER BY strftime('%Y-%d-%m-%Y', startTime) DESC LIMIT :count")
Make sure that the format passed to strftime match your time format.
For reference formats can be found here:
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/sqlite/sqlite_date_time.htm
Can you try changing stringToDate(startTime) to datetime(startTime)?
Can you provide a sample of startTime object?
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 ...
Cursor cursor = db.rawQuery("SELECT * FROM expenses WHERE expense_date > (SELECT DATE('now', '-7 day'));", null);
I have this above query to get all records that inserted in last 7 days. But as a result of this query i am getting all the records. The date column of these records is inserted via Android's DatePicker and they are in 30-Jul-2015 format. I guess that's why this query does not work properly. Is there a way to make them consistent to get this query work properly or i am missing out something else ? Any help would be appreciated.
I've never tried using the SQLite built in date functions. Taking a quick look at the SQLite date function documentation here, it would seem that to use them the date needs to be in the format YYYY-MM-DD, which would be why your query is failing.
You can do some string manipulation/formatting before saving to the db and use that format.
Personally, I usually format in that manner but without the dash separators, then a simple less than/greater than comparison can be used, treating the date like a regular number. Of course some conversion back and forth is necessary for display, but for under the hood it works great.
int now = 20150730;
String query = "SELECT * FROM expenses WHERE expense_date > '" + now-7 + "'";
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.