27 Jun 2024 Martyna Sławińska PostgreSQL Date Functions Understanding date and time functions in your database is essential for effective data analysis and reporting. Read on to learn more about PostgreSQL date functions. This article covers some of the most useful PostgreSQL date and time functions and their applications in data analysis and reporting. SQL date functions facilitate different data analysis tasks, including sales analysis, financial reporting, website analytics, and more. This article presents you with the tools, in the form of PostgreSQL date and time functions, used to accomplish these tasks. Read more 20 Feb 2024 Gustavo du Mortier MySQL Date Functions: Complete Analyst’s Guide Master MySQL date functions and acquire a powerful tool to work with date and time information in your data analyses. Working with date and time data is an essential part of data analysis. Here are just three examples: Analyzing historical time series data is crucial for discovering trends and making reliable forecasts based on chronological information. Stock market analysis examines time series data extensively, especially when automated trading algorithms are employed. Read more 30 Jan 2024 Tihomir Babic SQL Server Date Functions: A Data Analysis Guide Date functions are the bread and butter of data analysis and reporting with SQL Server. In this guide, I will show you practical examples of the use of SQL Server date functions and how to apply them to your reports. A question for all data analysts: Do you want to be taken seriously? I’m sure you do. In that case, knowing SQL Server date functions is mandatory. Date and time data types are ubiquitous in databases, as they are essential for reporting. Read more 5 Jan 2018 Aldo Zelen 18 Useful Important SQL Functions to Learn ASAP Updated on: October 30th, 2023 Learning a new programming language can seem intimidating. Like any other language, a programming language has a large vocabulary that you need to master. In this article, we’ll look at some of the most useful SQL functions that you need to know. Structured Query Language, commonly known as SQL, is the standard language for managing and querying data in relational databases. Born out of the need to efficiently interact with large datasets, SQL has become an indispensable tool for database administrators, data analysts, and developers alike. Read more 27 Nov 2017 Ignacio L. Bisso SQL Date and Interval Arithmetic: Employee Lateness Computing Tardiness: Date, Time, and Interval SQL Arithmetic In this article, we’re going to discuss some interesting operations we can perform with date-related data types in SQL. The SQL standard, which most relational databases comply with these days, specifies the date-related data types that must be present in relational databases. The most important of such data types are date, time, timestamp, and interval. Here’s a brief rundown of the differences between these data types: Read more 20 Jun 2017 Aldo Zelen Useful SQL Patterns: Date Generator As you start coding in SQL, you will use some statements and techniques over and over again. We call these “SQL patterns”. This series will look at the most common SQL patterns and consider how to use them. SQL patterns, such as the pivot pattern we discussed last week, can save you a lot of time and effort. Suppose you are asked to get a range of days in a financial quarter, but the only records you have are for the start and end dates of each quarter. Read more 24 Jan 2017 Maria Alcaraz Performing Calculations on Date- and Time-Related Values Relational databases support several date and time data types. In this article, we'll look at several arithmetic operations we can do on these types. These operations are logical and understandable, even for the beginning SQL coder. Let's first briefly explain the main data types used for dates and times. Keep in mind that data types may differ by database engine, so check your database documentation for specifics before you start working with them. Read more 29 Oct 2014 Patrycja Dybka Basic Date and Time Functions in MS SQL Server As a follow up to our article “The Most Useful Date and Time Functions in Oracle Database”, let’s review what date and time functions look like in MS SQL Server. Let’s start with functions that extract a year, month and day from a given date. declare @dt date = '2014-10-20' select year (@dt) as year, month (@dt) as month, day (@dt) as day SQL Server uses GETDATE() and SYSDATETIME() to get a current date and time. Read more 21 Oct 2014 Patrycja Dybka The Most Useful Date and Time Functions Date and time functions and formats are quite different in various databases. In this article, let's review the most common functions that manipulates dates in an Oracle database. The function SYSDATE() returns a 7 byte binary data element whose bytes represents: century, year, month, day, hour, minute, second It's important to know that select sysdate from dual in SQL*Plus gives the same result as select to_char(sysdate) from dual because SQL*Plus binds everything into character strings so it can print it. Read more