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FGlock
Starting Member
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 Posted - 2005-09-26 : 13:29:15
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| The dates in the SQL database look like this:open_date109576848710957039301126727859I would like to know how to convert the date into something usable. For instance, the 3rd value is really 9/14/2005. I'm using Query Analyzer.Thanks for any guidance you might provide. |
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SamC
White Water Yakist
3467 Posts |
Posted - 2005-09-26 : 14:37:38
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| What is the data type of open_date ? DATETIME, VARCHAR, INT ? |
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Kristen
Test
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Posted - 2005-09-26 : 14:54:21
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| Hi FGlock, Welcome to SQL Team!Are these Unix "seconds since 01-Jan-1970"?if so I would do:select dateadd(second, open_date, '19700101')Kristen |
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FGlock
Starting Member
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Posted - 2005-09-26 : 15:17:30
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Originally posted by Kristen
Hi FGlock, Welcome to SQL Team!Are these Unix "seconds since 01-Jan-1970"?if so I would do:select dateadd(second, open_date, '19700101')Kristen
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FGlock
Starting Member
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Posted - 2005-09-26 : 15:21:09
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| Kristen - I want to thank you so much. The code sample you sent me worked beautifully. I have been struggling with this for many hours trying to glean what I could from others' postings, but nothing I tried seemed to work. I am a mainframe person (used to JCL and batch jobs) so this is a new world for me doing online queries in the server world. Thanks again and have a great day!By the way, the date shows as Int, Null in the listing in Query Analyzer. |
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madhivanan
Premature Yak Congratulator
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Posted - 2005-09-27 : 01:04:49
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>>Are these Unix "seconds since 01-Jan-1970"?Kris, how did you find that?  Is 01-Jan-1970 mimimum date in Unix?MadhivananFailing to plan is Planning to fail |
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Kristen
Test
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Posted - 2005-09-27 : 03:12:12
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| We "pull" some data from an Oracle application which seems to favour storing dates as "seconds since 01-Jan-1970".The numbers looked about the right size!Kristen |
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Date decoding question