SQL Command to get Hourly Dates

My best thought for you is to setup a DTS package and then schedule it on the hour with the Server Agent.

I am not too sure what you mean though, but if you needed the information inserted, then all you would have to do is setup a DTS package the executes the SQL Insert statment that you want.  Then with the Server Agent you can schedule it to run hourly every day.

Hope that helps!

Section37

If you need to find the difference between two dates then use the DateDiff command in sql.  That will allow you to compare two dates and give you the difference.

ie.

SELECT * FROM table WHERE DateDiff("n", DateTimeField, Now()) > 15;

Will result in records that have a time older than 15 minutes.  Lookup the DateDiff syntax for more information on the switches you can use to produce different time, such as months, days, minutes, hours, etc.

Section 37

Thanks for your reply.

Basically what I want to be able to di is create a dataset in my .Net app that has all
datetimes per hour from a start date and an end date.

From this dataset I can be able to get the hour using the datepart function in crystal report which will allow me to create a report showing totals for each hour(also showing data for the hour that has none) - this part I can take care of.

But the only difficult part is getting date times per hour between 2 dates in sql.

Thanks
kpax

I have tried to do this same thing before and have not found a much more elegant answer than the sort solution46 suggested.

I think this is what you wanted:

Create a custom function:
CREATE FUNCTION DumpHours  (@startDate datetime, @endDate datetime)
RETURNS @resultTable TABLE
   (result1 varchar(80) )
AS
Begin
  declare @counter datetime
  set @counter = @startDate
  while @counter < @endDate
  begin
    insert @resultTable  select @counter
    set @counter = dateAdd (Hour,1,@counter)
  end
  return
END


and use it in a SQL query:

select * from dumpHours('9/16/2004 12:00:00 AM ','9/17/2004 11:59:59 PM')

Tiran Dagan
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Opps solution46: Looks like we took the same track - only you submitted right before I did!

Heh...

Nice function... still like my sproc better though :)))))


s46

cheers kpax!

s46