I have looked into Cast and Convert, but I cannot find a way to do this. I need to convert four digits into an hour format. For instance, 0800 would become 8:00 or 1530 would become 15:30. I cannot use functions, I'm using a InterSystem's CacheSQL. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
EDIT:
If it is any more convenient, I can just divide the four digits by one hundred to get values like 15 from original 1500, or 8.30 from 0830. Does this make converting to hour:minute format easier?
For CacheSQL, you can do this:
SELECT {fn TRIM(LEADING '0' FROM LEFT(col_name, 2) || ':' || RIGHT(col_name, 2)) }
FROM table_name
In SQL Server 2008, given data that looks like
create table #data
(
HHMM int not null ,
)
insert #data values ( 0800 )
insert #data values ( 0815 )
insert #data values ( 1037 )
insert #data values ( 2359 )
You can say:
select * ,
strTime = right( '0' + convert(varchar, HHMM / 100 ) , 2 )
+ ':'
+ right( '0' + convert(varchar, HHMM % 100 ) , 2 ) ,
myTime = convert(time ,
right( '0' + convert(varchar, HHMM / 100 ) , 2 )
+ ':'
+ right( '0' + convert(varchar, HHMM % 100 ) , 2 ) ,
120
)
from #data
Other SQL implementations likely have similar functionality.
In earlier versions of SQL Server that lack the time
datatype, just use datetime
, thus:
select * ,
strTime = right( '0' + convert(varchar, HHMM / 100 ) , 2 )
+ ':'
+ right( '0' + convert(varchar, HHMM % 100 ) , 2 ) ,
myTime = convert(datetime,
right( '0' + convert(varchar, HHMM / 100 ) , 2 )
+ ':'
+ right( '0' + convert(varchar, HHMM % 100 ) , 2 ) ,
120
)
from #data
You'll get a datetime
value that is 1 Jan 1900 with the desired time-of-day.
Well, if it is something like Oracle you might have a try with the to_date()
function.
Read more here.
Example:
SELECT to_date(yourColumn, 'HH24MI') FROM ...
EDIT (why? see comments): If necessary (I'm actually not familiar with Oracle) you can wrap another function like TIME() around it.
SELECT TIME(to_date(yourColumn, 'HH24MI')) FROM ...
Read more about TIME() here.
</EDIT>
In MySQL the equivalent would be the STR_TO_DATE()
function:
SELECT STR_TO_DATE(yourColumn, '%H%i') FROM ...
Read about STR_TO_DATE() and its parameters under the DATE_FORMAT() function.