I have a query expression in Cognos where I need to compare a past date to the current date. I don't see one in the functions list and I'm otherwise unsure how to put the query date inside a query object.
How can I use the current date in a query?
Depending on your Database software, the object will be either be current_date (SQL Server) or SYSDATE{} (Oracle). If you don't know which you have, just make an expression of just the function and press the Validate button; if you get an error, you used the wrong function for your database.
You can then use this object like any other Date query object, so you can add/compare it to dates in your query or display it somewhere on the page.
The best way is to use current_date. This method is data source agnostic and will be converted to the appropriate data source equivalent at run-time.
You can use something like this with your query:
SELECT
FIELD1
FROM TABLE
WHERE
FIELD2 = current_date
Asumming that FIELD2 has a date format
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I am facing very simple problem of not able to change the datatype of additional column in copy activity in ADF pipeline from String to Datetime
I am trying to change source datatype for additional column in mapping using JSON but still it doesn't work with polybase cmd
When I run my pipeline it gives same error
Is it not possible to change datatype of additional column, by default it takes string only
Dynamic columns return string.
Try to put the value [Ex. utcnow()] in the dynamic content of query and cast it to the required target datatype.
Otherwise you can use data-flow-derived-column :
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/data-flow-derived-column
Since your source is a query, you can choose to bring current date in source SQL query itself in the desired format rather than adding it in the additional column.
Thanks
Try to use formatDateTime as shown below and define the desired Date format:
Here since format given is ‘yyyy-dd-MM’, the result will look as below:
Note: The output here will be of string format only as in Copy activity we could not cast data type as of the date.
We could either create current date in the Source sql query or use above way so that the data would load into the sink in expected format.
My database is SQL Server. I have the following sql query
SELECT RQI,RQIOver,PCI,PCIOver,PQI,PQIOver,SR,SROver,IRI,IRIOver,RUT,RUTOver,cast(DateCollected as date) as DateCollected,cast(DateCollectedOver as date) as DateCollectedOver from dbo.PF_Condition where SegmentId=12665
The result I am getting for DateCollected is just the date, which I need, when run it in SQL Management Studio. However when I put the same SQL query in a nodejs service which I created the result is not the same.
I needed to extract YYYY-MM-DD from datetime field DateCollected and DateCollectedOver as mentioned in the query above.
Can someone help me with it?
I made it work with the slice operator of javascript and sliced the date part only and displayed in the frontend where I need to. The results returned are of type string so the slice operator worked.
If someone can help why the cast function is not working in the sql query when I put it in the nodejs service it will be really helpful
After casting as DATE, you can then use the LEFT function to truncate the result to 10 characters:
LEFT(cast(DateCollected as date), 10) as DateCollected
which would return a string with the format 'YYYY-MM-DD'
I'm using node-mssql to get rows from a table that includes a date column (YYYY-MM-DD). I want to pass the date to a client application as a string in that same format. node-mssql is creating date objects, which I'm having to convert and slice at significant cost to get the format that I started with. sql.map.register(String, sql.Date) doesn't seem to work here (or I'm using it wrong). Is there a way to change how node-mssql handles the SQL date data type?
I'm having the same problem. sql.map.register is only for converting JS types to SQL types and I don't think there is any way to avoid SQL Date fields being converted into JS Date objects with node-mssql alone. I just changed my SQL query to convert to a formatted varchar instead of a Date type, e.g.: convert(varchar, birthday, 105) as dob.
In a Generic Inquiry, I'm trying to format the time part of a DateTime field in the results. I don't currently see any way to do this without parsing the date as a string, but I must be missing something. Using the Format() function, running the query tells me "The method or operation is not implemented". Using the Minute() function gets the minutes part, but using the Hour() function says "Unsupported formula operator Hour".
Add CRCase table in your tables and don't join with any tables under Relations tab, and in result grid, under Schema field use CRCase.CreatedDateTime, with this you will get the result in DateTime format.
let me know if this is my wrong assumption to your question.
select date from table1 where date <=(select Format(date,'mm/##/yyyy') as dates from table 2).
This query returns "02/##/2011".
I want to make a list like "02/02/2011","02/03/2011" etc.
I think the problem is with your query, if its a query. change your query by putt star (*) instead of hash(#).