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oracle date question

select end_time,
to_char(end_time,'HH12:MI:SS AM') endtime,
start_time,
to_char(start_time,'HH12:MI:SS AM') starttime,
drive_date,drive_id
from blood_drives
where drive_date between '01-oct-2014' and '15-oct-2014'

END_TIME,ENDTIME,START_TIME,STARTTIME,DRIVE_DATE,DRIVE_ID

8/1/2012 2:30:00 PM,02:30:00 PM,8/1/2012 10:30:00 AM,10:30:00 AM,10/1/2014,2024984
8/1/2014 2:00:00 PM,02:00:00 PM,8/1/2014 10:00:00 AM,10:00:00 AM,10/1/2014,2025401
4/1/2012 3:00:00 PM,03:00:00 PM,4/1/2012 8:30:00 AM,08:30:00 AM,10/1/2014,2024089
8/1/2014 2:00:00 PM,02:00:00 PM,8/1/2014 10:00:00 AM,10:00:00 AM,10/1/2014,2025416
2/1/2008 7:30:00 PM,07:30:00 PM,9/1/2010 3:30:00 PM,03:30:00 PM,10/1/2014,2024983
12/1/2010 2:00:00 PM,02:00:00 PM,10/1/2012 10:00:00 AM,10:00:00 AM,10/1/2014,2023342
8/1/2014 3:30:00 PM,03:30:00 PM,8/1/2014 9:00:00 AM,09:00:00 AM,10/1/2014,2025327

But when I want to get difference in time I get error

select end_time,
to_char(end_time,'HH12:MI:SS AM') endtime,
start_time,
to_char(start_time,'HH12:MI:SS AM') starttime,
to_char(end_time,'HH12:MI:SS AM') - to_char(start_time,'HH12:MI:SS AM') as diff,
drive_date,drive_id
from blood_drives
where drive_date between '01-oct-2014' and '15-oct-2014'

ORA-01722: invalid number

Help appreciated

slightwv (䄆 Netminder)

Subtract the dates not the string values.

Don't use TO_CHAR and subtract them.

That is the same as:

SQL> select 'a'-'b' from dual;
select 'a'-'b' from dual
       *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01722: invalid number

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anumoses

ASKER

I did to_char since I wanted to ignore the date which is not the correct date when compared to the drive_date. This is a very old program and the person who did this for some reason has a date that does not match to the drive_date bu the time poriton is correct. So I did to_char

slightwv (䄆 Netminder)

You cannot subtract characters no matter what the reason you did it.

If you don't want the number of days, just ignore the whole number part and take the fractional piece:
(end_time-start_time)-trunc(end_time-start_time)

That should return the fraction part of the day. then it is basic math to compute whatever time you want.

slightwv (䄆 Netminder)

To see how many hours are between the time portion of two dates that are over a thousand years apart:

12:30 PM from 11:00AM is 1.5 hours.

I ignore the years...

drop table tab1 purge;
create table tab1(start_time date, end_time date);

insert into tab1 values(
to_date('01/01/1600 11:00:00','MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'),
to_date('01/01/3459 12:30:00','MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS')
);
commit;

select ((end_time-start_time)- trunc(end_time-start_time))*24 from tab1;

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slightwv (䄆 Netminder)

Taking a guess at a possible followup question:
If you want to break it down into hours and minutes, there are many ways to do this on the Internet.

This is the one I've seen most of the time:
https://asktom.oracle.com/pls/apex/ASKTOM.download_file?p_file=6551242712657900129

Just ignore the 'day' piece.

anumoses

ASKER

CREATE TABLE TAB1
(
  END_TIME    DATE                              NOT NULL,
  ENDTIME     VARCHAR2(11 BYTE),
  START_TIME  DATE                              NOT NULL,
  STARTTIME   VARCHAR2(11 BYTE),
  DRIVE_DATE  DATE                              NOT NULL,
  DRIVE_ID    NUMBER(7)                         NOT NULL
)
Insert into TAB1
   (END_TIME, ENDTIME, START_TIME, STARTTIME, DRIVE_DATE, 
    DRIVE_ID)
 Values
   (TO_DATE('08/01/2012 14:30:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '02:30:00 PM', TO_DATE('08/01/2012 10:30:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '10:30:00 AM', TO_DATE('10/01/2014 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 
    2024984);
Insert into TAB1
   (END_TIME, ENDTIME, START_TIME, STARTTIME, DRIVE_DATE, 
    DRIVE_ID)
 Values
   (TO_DATE('08/01/2014 14:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '02:00:00 PM', TO_DATE('08/01/2014 10:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '10:00:00 AM', TO_DATE('10/01/2014 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 
    2025401);
Insert into TAB1
   (END_TIME, ENDTIME, START_TIME, STARTTIME, DRIVE_DATE, 
    DRIVE_ID)
 Values
   (TO_DATE('04/01/2012 15:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '03:00:00 PM', TO_DATE('04/01/2012 08:30:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '08:30:00 AM', TO_DATE('10/01/2014 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 
    2024089);
Insert into TAB1
   (END_TIME, ENDTIME, START_TIME, STARTTIME, DRIVE_DATE, 
    DRIVE_ID)
 Values
   (TO_DATE('08/01/2014 14:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '02:00:00 PM', TO_DATE('08/01/2014 10:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '10:00:00 AM', TO_DATE('10/01/2014 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 
    2025416);
Insert into TAB1
   (END_TIME, ENDTIME, START_TIME, STARTTIME, DRIVE_DATE, 
    DRIVE_ID)
 Values
   (TO_DATE('02/01/2008 19:30:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '07:30:00 PM', TO_DATE('09/01/2010 15:30:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '03:30:00 PM', TO_DATE('10/01/2014 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 
    2024983);
Insert into TAB1
   (END_TIME, ENDTIME, START_TIME, STARTTIME, DRIVE_DATE, 
    DRIVE_ID)
 Values
   (TO_DATE('12/01/2010 14:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '02:00:00 PM', TO_DATE('10/01/2012 10:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '10:00:00 AM', TO_DATE('10/01/2014 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 
    2023342);
Insert into TAB1
   (END_TIME, ENDTIME, START_TIME, STARTTIME, DRIVE_DATE, 
    DRIVE_ID)
 Values
   (TO_DATE('08/01/2014 15:30:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '03:30:00 PM', TO_DATE('08/01/2014 09:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '09:00:00 AM', TO_DATE('10/01/2014 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 
    2025327);
Insert into TAB1
   (END_TIME, ENDTIME, START_TIME, STARTTIME, DRIVE_DATE, 
    DRIVE_ID)
 Values
   (TO_DATE('07/01/2014 13:30:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '01:30:00 PM', TO_DATE('07/01/2014 10:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '10:00:00 AM', TO_DATE('10/01/2014 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 
    2025216);
Insert into TAB1
   (END_TIME, ENDTIME, START_TIME, STARTTIME, DRIVE_DATE, 
    DRIVE_ID)
 Values
   (TO_DATE('07/01/2014 16:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '04:00:00 PM', TO_DATE('07/01/2014 12:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '12:00:00 PM', TO_DATE('10/01/2014 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 
    2025299);
Insert into TAB1
   (END_TIME, ENDTIME, START_TIME, STARTTIME, DRIVE_DATE, 
    DRIVE_ID)
 Values
   (TO_DATE('03/01/2007 14:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '02:00:00 PM', TO_DATE('03/01/2007 08:30:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '08:30:00 AM', TO_DATE('10/02/2014 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 
    2025033);
Insert into TAB1
   (END_TIME, ENDTIME, START_TIME, STARTTIME, DRIVE_DATE, 
    DRIVE_ID)
 Values
   (TO_DATE('09/01/2009 18:30:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '06:30:00 PM', TO_DATE('11/01/2006 14:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '02:00:00 PM', TO_DATE('10/02/2014 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 
    2023796);
Insert into TAB1
   (END_TIME, ENDTIME, START_TIME, STARTTIME, DRIVE_DATE, 
    DRIVE_ID)
 Values
   (TO_DATE('07/01/2013 12:30:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '12:30:00 PM', TO_DATE('07/01/2013 08:30:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '08:30:00 AM', TO_DATE('10/02/2014 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 
    2024586);
Insert into TAB1
   (END_TIME, ENDTIME, START_TIME, STARTTIME, DRIVE_DATE, 
    DRIVE_ID)
 Values
   (TO_DATE('11/01/2006 14:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '02:00:00 PM', TO_DATE('11/01/2006 08:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '08:00:00 AM', TO_DATE('10/02/2014 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 
    2024985);
Insert into TAB1
   (END_TIME, ENDTIME, START_TIME, STARTTIME, DRIVE_DATE, 
    DRIVE_ID)
 Values
   (TO_DATE('11/01/2006 19:30:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '07:30:00 PM', TO_DATE('11/01/2006 15:30:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '03:30:00 PM', TO_DATE('10/02/2014 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 
    2023436);
Insert into TAB1
   (END_TIME, ENDTIME, START_TIME, STARTTIME, DRIVE_DATE, 
    DRIVE_ID)
 Values
   (TO_DATE('11/01/2006 12:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '12:00:00 PM', TO_DATE('09/01/2013 08:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '08:00:00 AM', TO_DATE('10/03/2014 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 
    2024986);
Insert into TAB1
   (END_TIME, ENDTIME, START_TIME, STARTTIME, DRIVE_DATE, 
    DRIVE_ID)
 Values
   (TO_DATE('08/01/2014 17:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '05:00:00 PM', TO_DATE('08/01/2014 13:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '01:00:00 PM', TO_DATE('10/03/2014 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 
    2025313);
Insert into TAB1
   (END_TIME, ENDTIME, START_TIME, STARTTIME, DRIVE_DATE, 
    DRIVE_ID)
 Values
   (TO_DATE('08/01/2014 14:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '02:00:00 PM', TO_DATE('08/01/2014 10:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '10:00:00 AM', TO_DATE('10/03/2014 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 
    2025329);
Insert into TAB1
   (END_TIME, ENDTIME, START_TIME, STARTTIME, DRIVE_DATE, 
    DRIVE_ID)
 Values
   (TO_DATE('09/01/2007 13:50:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '01:50:00 PM', TO_DATE('09/01/2007 08:50:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '08:50:00 AM', TO_DATE('10/03/2014 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 
    2024988);
Insert into TAB1
   (END_TIME, ENDTIME, START_TIME, STARTTIME, DRIVE_DATE, 
    DRIVE_ID)
 Values
   (TO_DATE('07/01/2014 14:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '02:00:00 PM', TO_DATE('07/01/2014 09:30:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '09:30:00 AM', TO_DATE('10/04/2014 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 
    2025023);
Insert into TAB1
   (END_TIME, ENDTIME, START_TIME, STARTTIME, DRIVE_DATE, 
    DRIVE_ID)
 Values
   (TO_DATE('08/01/2011 14:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '02:00:00 PM', TO_DATE('08/01/2010 10:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '10:00:00 AM', TO_DATE('10/04/2014 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 
    2023322);
Insert into TAB1
   (END_TIME, ENDTIME, START_TIME, STARTTIME, DRIVE_DATE, 
    DRIVE_ID)
 Values
   (TO_DATE('07/01/2014 14:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '02:00:00 PM', TO_DATE('07/01/2014 10:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '10:00:00 AM', TO_DATE('10/04/2014 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 
    2025302);
Insert into TAB1
   (END_TIME, ENDTIME, START_TIME, STARTTIME, DRIVE_DATE, 
    DRIVE_ID)
 Values
   (TO_DATE('08/01/2009 11:30:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '11:30:00 AM', TO_DATE('11/01/2006 07:30:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '07:30:00 AM', TO_DATE('10/04/2014 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 
    2024779);
Insert into TAB1
   (END_TIME, ENDTIME, START_TIME, STARTTIME, DRIVE_DATE, 
    DRIVE_ID)
 Values
   (TO_DATE('06/01/2007 13:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '01:00:00 PM', TO_DATE('08/01/2009 09:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '09:00:00 AM', TO_DATE('10/04/2014 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 
    2024990);
Insert into TAB1
   (END_TIME, ENDTIME, START_TIME, STARTTIME, DRIVE_DATE, 
    DRIVE_ID)
 Values
   (TO_DATE('07/01/2014 14:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '02:00:00 PM', TO_DATE('07/01/2014 10:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '10:00:00 AM', TO_DATE('10/04/2014 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 
    2025292);
Insert into TAB1
   (END_TIME, ENDTIME, START_TIME, STARTTIME, DRIVE_DATE, 
    DRIVE_ID)
 Values
   (TO_DATE('07/01/2014 13:30:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '01:30:00 PM', TO_DATE('07/01/2014 09:30:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '09:30:00 AM', TO_DATE('10/04/2014 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 
    2025213);
COMMIT;

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When I take the difference I dont get the right values. And I know the date part is not correct. Let me know.

anumoses

ASKER

The link is helpful

slightwv (䄆 Netminder)

>>When I take the difference I dont get the right values. And I know the date part is not correct. Let me know.

What are you getting and what do you want?
Pick one of the rows from the example you just posted and post what you get and what you want to get.

Since this one has a different date portion, let's use this one:

Insert into TAB1
   (END_TIME, ENDTIME, START_TIME, STARTTIME, DRIVE_DATE, 
    DRIVE_ID)
 Values
   (TO_DATE('02/01/2008 19:30:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '07:30:00 PM', TO_DATE('09/01/2010 15:30:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), '03:30:00 PM', TO_DATE('10/01/2014 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 
    2024983);

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In the example I posted, do you not get 1.5?

anumoses

ASKER

select end_time,
to_char(end_time,'HH12:MI:SS AM') endtime,
start_time,
to_char(start_time,'HH12:MI:SS AM') starttime,
((end_time-start_time)- trunc(end_time-start_time))*24 as diff,
trunc( mod( (end_time-start_time)*24, 24 ) ) "Hr",
trunc( mod( (end_time-start_time)*24*60, 60 ) ) "Mi",
trunc( mod( (end_time-start_time)*24*60*60, 60 ) ) "Sec",
drive_date,drive_id
from tab1
where drive_id = 2024983

END_TIME,ENDTIME,START_TIME,STARTTIME,DIFF,Hr,Mi,Sec,DRIVE_DATE,DRIVE_ID
2/1/2008 7:30:00 PM,07:30:00 PM,9/1/2010 3:30:00 PM,03:30:00 PM,-20,-20,0,0,10/1/2014,2024983

slightwv (䄆 Netminder)

That is what you get.

Now what do you want?

anumoses

ASKER

I need to get

END_TIME,ENDTIME,START_TIME,STARTTIME,DIFF,Hr,Mi,Sec,DRIVE_DATE,DRIVE_ID
2/1/2008 7:30:00 PM,07:30:00 PM,9/1/2010 3:30:00 PM,03:30:00 PM,4,4,0,0,10/1/2014,2024983

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anumoses

ASKER

Thanks a lot. I so much depend on your and sdstuber's answers.

anumoses

ASKER

Thanks