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Old 12-06-2010
Oracle Database Query

How can i modify the below to search for the things i'm looking for during a certain time frame?


Code:
select Node, NodeAlias, Summary, Tally, AlertKey, AlertGroup, Manager, Agent from mrtg_alerts where LastOccurrence > '5-Dec-2010' order by Manager desc;

In this particular case, this query is suppose to pull out all the Alerts received on December 5th, 2010. But, that could be a lot of alerts. So i only want to pull out alerts received on that date but between between the time of 2:00pm and 8:00pm.

Any help?
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Old 12-06-2010
Can you describe the table mrtg_alerts to us?
# 3  
Old 12-06-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by fpmurphy
Can you describe the table mrtg_alerts to us?
it's the table that contains the information I want to grab out. im not sure I know how to describe it well enough. i just want to be able to pull things out of the table by time and date.

i think something like the below may need to be incorporated in my db statement. i'm not sure:


Code:
('11-NOV-2009 23:00.00','dd-mon-yyyy HH24:MI:SS')

# 4  
Old 12-08-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by SkySmart
it's the table that contains the information I want to grab out. im not sure I know how to describe it well enough....
"DESCRIBE" is a command of Oracle's own client - SQL*Plus. When run, it displays the structure of a table i.e. column names, their datatypes, sizes, whether they are nullable or not etc.

I believe fpmurphy wanted you to use that command, rather than plain English, to describe your table.

In any case, you may want to try this Oracle query -

Code:
--
-- This query fetches all records that have LASTOCCURRENCE values between
-- 5-Dec-2010 2:00 PM and 5-Dec-2010 8:00 PM, **both timestamps inclusive**
--
SELECT   node, nodealias, summary, tally, alertkey, alertgroup, manager, agent
   FROM mrtg_alerts
  WHERE lastoccurrence BETWEEN TO_DATE ('5-DEC-2010 14:0:0', 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS')
                           AND TO_DATE ('5-DEC-2010 20:0:0', 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS')
ORDER BY manager DESC;

Note that "between" over here means:
- the timestamp 5-Dec-2010 2:00 PM, and
- all timestamps between 2:00 PM and 8 PM on 5-Dec-2010, and
- the timestamp 5-Dec-2010 8:00 PM

Here's an equivalent query that uses the numeric relational operators instead of BETWEEN -

Code:
-- Equivalent query
SELECT   node, nodealias, summary, tally, alertkey, alertgroup, manager, agent
   FROM mrtg_alerts
  WHERE lastoccurrence >= TO_DATE ('5-DEC-2010 14:0:0', 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS')
    AND lastoccurrence <= TO_DATE ('5-DEC-2010 20:0:0', 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS')
ORDER BY manager DESC;

HTH,
tyler_durden
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