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Trying to get a count using a SQL query on an Access DB
I am trying to get a count of the total number of hours and minutes per extension in my phone system database. The database is in Access, and I am writing some SQL queries in PHP to access them.
I have the code seen in the "Attach Code Snippet" area below, and what it is returning is the total number of OUTBOUND calls made on that extension rather than the total amount of talk time on that extesion.
The Date is getting passed by user input, but I am hardcoding the extension (for now). The field in the DB that I need it to count is "DURATION" and the data in that field is in minutes (000).
Once I get this working, I would like to use this function to translate it to hours and minutes (0:00):
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// Transform hours like "1:45" into the total number of minutes, "105".
function hoursToMinutes($hours)
{
$minutes = 0;
if (strpos($hours, ':') !== false)
{
// Split hours and minutes.
list($hours, $minutes) = explode(':', $hours);
}
return $hours * 60 + $minutes;
}
// Transform minutes like "105" into hours like "1:45".
function minutesToHours($minutes)
{
$hours = (int)($minutes / 60);
$minutes -= $hours * 60;
return sprintf("%d:%02.0f", $hours, $minutes);
}
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So what is wrong with my query, why is it returning number of calls rather than total talk time and how do I fix it?
Thanks in advance for the help.
I have the code seen in the "Attach Code Snippet" area below, and what it is returning is the total number of OUTBOUND calls made on that extension rather than the total amount of talk time on that extesion.
The Date is getting passed by user input, but I am hardcoding the extension (for now). The field in the DB that I need it to count is "DURATION" and the data in that field is in minutes (000).
Once I get this working, I would like to use this function to translate it to hours and minutes (0:00):
**************************
// Transform hours like "1:45" into the total number of minutes, "105".
function hoursToMinutes($hours)
{
$minutes = 0;
if (strpos($hours, ':') !== false)
{
// Split hours and minutes.
list($hours, $minutes) = explode(':', $hours);
}
return $hours * 60 + $minutes;
}
// Transform minutes like "105" into hours like "1:45".
function minutesToHours($minutes)
{
$hours = (int)($minutes / 60);
$minutes -= $hours * 60;
return sprintf("%d:%02.0f", $hours, $minutes);
}
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So what is wrong with my query, why is it returning number of calls rather than total talk time and how do I fix it?
Thanks in advance for the help.
$time = "SELECT Date, Extension, Count(Duration) AS CountOfDuration2
FROM AllInfo
GROUP BY Date, Extension, IO
HAVING Extension = '3908' AND IO = 'Out' AND Date=#".$id."#" ;
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And this is the part that is writing to the page:
while($row = odbc_fetch_array($timequery)) {
echo "<td><center>".$row["CountOfDuration2"]."</center></td>"; }
what about this:
$time = "SELECT [Date], Extension, sum(Duration) AS CountOfDuration2
FROM AllInfo
WHERE Extension = 3908
AND IO = 'Out'
AND [Date]=#$id#
GROUP BY [Date], Extension
";
assuming Extension being a numerical data type.
is $id really the correct variable for the date value?
$time = "SELECT [Date], Extension, sum(Duration) AS CountOfDuration2
FROM AllInfo
WHERE Extension = 3908
AND IO = 'Out'
AND [Date]=#$id#
GROUP BY [Date], Extension
";
assuming Extension being a numerical data type.
is $id really the correct variable for the date value?
ASKER
Same error on that as well.
>is $id really the correct variable for the date value?
Yes, this part of the query works fine, it calls the date put in by the user on a form and has not returned any errors up to this point.
>is $id really the correct variable for the date value?
Yes, this part of the query works fine, it calls the date put in by the user on a form and has not returned any errors up to this point.
can you isolate on which part of the query it errors out?
by removing parts of it until the error goes away?
by removing parts of it until the error goes away?
ASKER
If I remove any the last line, I get "You tried to execute a query that does not include the specified expression 'Date' as part of an aggregate function."
If I take out
AND IO = 'Out'
AND [Date]=#$id#
I get "Data type mismatch in criteria expression"
If I take out the
FROM AllInfo
I get "The SELECT statement includes a reserved word or an argument name that is misspelled or missing, or the punctuation is incorrect."
I'm not sure exacly what I'm looking for, I'm kind of a newbe. I wrote this based on the query that I have that returns the total number of calls. THat query is as follows:
$sql2 = "SELECT Count(*) AS TotalNumberOfCalls2 FROM AllInfo WHERE Extension = '3908' AND Date=#".$id."#";
It works perfectly fine, so I was trying just to recreate the same type of deal to get the total out of the DURATION column but that's where I ran into this problem. Does this need to be rewritten?
If I take out
AND IO = 'Out'
AND [Date]=#$id#
I get "Data type mismatch in criteria expression"
If I take out the
FROM AllInfo
I get "The SELECT statement includes a reserved word or an argument name that is misspelled or missing, or the punctuation is incorrect."
I'm not sure exacly what I'm looking for, I'm kind of a newbe. I wrote this based on the query that I have that returns the total number of calls. THat query is as follows:
$sql2 = "SELECT Count(*) AS TotalNumberOfCalls2 FROM AllInfo WHERE Extension = '3908' AND Date=#".$id."#";
It works perfectly fine, so I was trying just to recreate the same type of deal to get the total out of the DURATION column but that's where I ran into this problem. Does this need to be rewritten?
ok, what about this:
$sql2 = "SELECT sum(Duration) AS TotalNumberOfCalls2 FROM AllInfo WHERE Extension = '3908' AND Date=#".$id."#";
what is the data type of the column Duration?
$sql2 = "SELECT sum(Duration) AS TotalNumberOfCalls2 FROM AllInfo WHERE Extension = '3908' AND Date=#".$id."#";
what is the data type of the column Duration?
ASKER
That actually returned a data type mismatch error. I looked at the database again, and I think instead of Duration I need to use DurationS. Duration has the total amount of talk time per call formatted like 0:00:00 and DurationS is the same duration in seconds like 0.
So I changed the query to DurationS and it's still returning the number of dials rather than talk time. So I went back to you original code and changed Duration to DurationS and I am now getting the total number of seconds. That seemed to do it. Now I just have to figure out how to get the seconds to translate to hours and minutes, but I guess that should be a different post.
Final Code below.
So I changed the query to DurationS and it's still returning the number of dials rather than talk time. So I went back to you original code and changed Duration to DurationS and I am now getting the total number of seconds. That seemed to do it. Now I just have to figure out how to get the seconds to translate to hours and minutes, but I guess that should be a different post.
Final Code below.
$time = "SELECT Date, Extension, sum(DurationS) AS CountOfDuration2
FROM AllInfo
WHERE Extension = '3908'
AND IO = 'Out'
AND Date=#$id#
GROUP BY Date, Extension, IO
";
ASKER
Excelent response time and knowledge!
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[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Data type mismatch in criteria expression.
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