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Raymond Chenon
Raymond Chenon

Reputation: 12662

SQL select & group by a period of time (timestamp)


I want to select the count number and group by a period of time (month, week, day, hour , ...) . So for example I want to select the number of rows and group them by 24h.
My table is created as follow. The date is timestamp.

CREATE TABLE MSG
(
   MSG_ID decimal(22) PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
   MSG_DATE timestamp,
   FILE_REF varchar2(32),
   FILE_NAME varchar2(64),
   MSG_TYPE varchar2(2),
);
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX PK_FEI_MSG ON MSG(MSG_ID);


I tried with this query. With length depending on the time period. But how can I group from now . 

SELECT substr(MSG_DATE, 1,length),COUNT(*) as total FROM MSG GROUP BY substr(MSG_DATE, 1, length)


But how can I group the date from now + time_period ?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 38842

Answers (1)

Ronnis
Ronnis

Reputation: 12833

You can group by the TO_CHAR function.

select to_char(msg_date, 'X')
      ,count(*)
  from msg
 group 
    by to_char(msg_date, 'X')

...where X is the format specification:

  • YYYY = 4-digit Year
  • MM = Month of year
  • DD = Day in month
  • WW = Week
  • HH24 = Hour of day

You can combine them pretty much however you like

Upvotes: 31

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