I've got a table in a Sybase DB with a column createdDateTime.
What I want to be able to do is count how many rows were created between specific but accumulating time periods, ie:
7:00 - 7:15
7:00 - 7:30
7:00 - 7:45
7:00 - 8:00
...
and so on until I have the last time group, 7:00 - 18:00.
Is there a nice way to make one query in SQL that will return all the rows for me with all the row counts:
Time Rows Created
7:00 - 7:15 0
7:00 - 7:30 5
7:00 - 7:45 8
7:00 - 8:00 15
... ...
I have a solution at the moment, but it requires me running a parameterised query 44 times to get all the data.
Thanks,
I recently blogged about this exact topic, not sure if it works in Sybase though, here's the solution
declare @interval int
set @interval = 5
select datepart(hh, DateTimeColumn)
, datepart(mi, DateTimeColumn)/@interval*@interval
, count(*)
from thetable
group by datepart(hh, DateTimeColumn)
, datepart(mi, DateTimeColumn)/@interval*@interval
and more details
http://ebersys.blogspot.com/2010/12/sql-group-datetime-by-arbitrary-time.html
try this
select count(*) from table groupedby createdDateTime where createdDateTime in (
SELECT *
FROM table
WHERE createdDateTime between createdDateTime ('2011/01/01:07:00', 'yyyy/mm/dd:hh:mm')
AND createdDateTime ('2011/01/01:07:15', 'yyyy/mm/dd:hh:mm')
)
Does Sybase have a CASE
statement? If so try this:
SELECT SUM(CASE WHEN CreatedTime BETWEEN ('7:00:00' AND '7:14:59') THEN 1 ELSE 0) as '7-7:15',
SUM(CASE WHEN CreatedTime BETWEEN ('7:15:00' AND '7:29:59') THEN 1 ELSE 0) as '7:15-7:30',
FROM MyTable
Where <conditions>
I use this a LOT in SQL Server.
You could determine the quarter of the hour in which a row was created and group by that value. Please note that this is Oracle SQL, but Sybase probably has an equivalent.
select to_char(datetime_created, 'HH24') hour
, floor(to_char(datetime_created, 'MI')/15)+1 quarter
, count(1)
from my_table
group by to_char(datetime_created, 'HH24')
, floor(to_char(datetime_created, 'MI')/15)+1;
You have irregular periods (some are 15 min length, others are 1 hour length, others are a few hours length). In that case, the best you can do is running a query with case statements:
with thetable as
(
SELECT 'TM' code, convert(datetime, '2011-04-15 07:01:00 AM') date, 1 id union all
SELECT 'TM', convert(datetime, '2011-04-15 07:05:00 AM'), 2 union all
SELECT 'TM', convert(datetime, '2011-04-15 07:08:00 AM'), 3 union all
SELECT 'TM', convert(datetime, '2011-04-15 07:20:00 AM'), 4 union all
SELECT 'TM', convert(datetime, '2011-04-15 08:25:00 AM'), 5
)
SELECT '07:00 - 07:15' interval, sum(case when CONVERT(varchar, date, 108) between '07:00:00' AND '07:14:59' then 1 else 0 end) counting
FROM thetable
union
select '07:15 - 08:00', sum(case when CONVERT(varchar, date, 108) between '07:15:00' AND '07:59:59' then 1 else 0 end)
from thetable
union
select '08:00 - 09:00', sum(case when CONVERT(varchar, date, 108) between '07:59:59' AND '08:59:59' then 1 else 0 end)
from thetable
Now, if you did have regular intervals, you'd do something like that:
select counting,
dateadd(ms,500-((datepart(ms,interval)+500)%1000),interval) intini
from
(
SELECT COUNT(1) counting, CONVERT(datetime, round(floor(CONVERT(float, date) * 24 * 4) / (24 * 4), 11)) interval
FROM
(
SELECT 'TM' code, convert(datetime, '2011-04-15 07:01:00 AM') date, 1 id union all
SELECT 'TM', convert(datetime, '2011-04-15 07:05:00 AM'), 2 union all
SELECT 'TM', convert(datetime, '2011-04-15 07:08:00 AM'), 3 union all
SELECT 'TM', convert(datetime, '2011-04-15 07:20:00 AM'), 4 union all
SELECT 'TM', convert(datetime, '2011-04-15 08:25:00 AM'), 5
) thetable
group by FLOOR(CONVERT(float, date) * 24 * 4)
) thetable2
Notice that 24 * 4 is the interval of 15 minutes. If your interval is 1 hour, you should replace that with 24. If you interval is 10 minutes, it should be 24 * 6. I think you got the picture.