MYSQL :: Search MYSQL Date Column With Unix Timestamp?

Can't Insert A Unix Timestamp Into Mysql
Just upgraded to 4.1.8 and when I create a field with a date value (field is trdate), it always has default of 0000-00-00. And when I insert values with unix timestamp values (which I prefer, and they come from php's strtotime function),the record does not insert properly. I tried to set, through phpmyadmin, unix/current timestamp and to no avail.

If I use a strtotime php function to convert a date into a timestamp, what is the proven way to make sure that value is saved during inserts? I am on the mysql manual, searched this board, but nothing works.

MySQL Generate UNIX Timestamp
Cam MySQL create a UNIX timestamp during an INSERT? I want to create a timestamp that is the number of seconds since January 1st 1970. Are there any inbuilt functions for doing so?

UNIX Timestamp
How do I get a UNIX timestamp in MySQL?

Covert Unix Timestamp
Been trying to use DATE_FORMAT on a timestamp in my table. However, just noticed that it's a UNIX timestamp, and not a datetime() timestamp. Is there a function that convert unix timestamps in a sql statement?

Trying to get the format "dd/mm/yyyy"

Grouping By Day With Unix Timestamp
Times in my database are stored as unix timestamps, and I need to find out how many sales per day. How do I use mysql to group by day when working with unix timestamps? I thought i could use something like select yea(timestamp) .... but this returns null.

Using CURDATE With UNIX Timestamp
I have a table where the dates are stored in UNIX timestamp format. I'm trying to use the CURDATE term for a select query but it isn't working. Does CURDATE work with the UNIX time stamp?
Any help is appreciated.
here's the query:
select first_name, last_name, date_expires, title
from cl_member, `user`, cl_chapter
where cl_member.user_id=`user`.user_id
and cl_member.chapter_id=cl_chapter.chapter_id
and cl_member.chapter_id=14
and month(date_expires)=month(CURDATE())
ORDER BY last_name

Comparing Dates If One Is Unix Timestamp
I'm building a simple cms and i'm trying to get something done.. I store the dates as UNIX timestamps. However i want to add a feature let's say to display how many entries have been posted today. Something like [Articles posted today: 3]

Inserting Current Unix Timestamp
I am working on coding a query to generate a phpBB useraccount in the mySQL database.

INSERT INTO kylebt_Forums.phpbb_users SET `username` = '%username%', `user_password`=MD5('%password%'), `user_email`='%email%', `user_regdate`=''

The user_regdate field is giving me problems as far as accepting the 10-digit unix_timestamp();

Apparently phpBB reads the PHP command time() however I am not sure how I need to implement this in the above code to have the timestamp show up correctly in the mySQL table. Currently, the user_regdate is showing up as the default value of '0'

Unix Timestamp Select Query
I am having trouble with the following sql query.I am trying to select all records in the future where the date is greater than today but to include today, the date field in the db is an unix timestamp.

Code:

"SELECT * FROM mysqltable WHERE mysqldatefield > now()-1 ORDER BY mysqldatefield DESC"

Unix Date Problems
1) I was investigating the unix_timestamp routine in mysql (version
3.23.46-nt) and for some reason the unix epoch (1-1-1970) was returned
with a value of -3600. Then, as you can see, it suddenly corrected
itself. I can't replicate this error, but it caused me to shudder.
Attached is the output from the command line client.
2) The function from_unixtime(n) wraps on my server after 2^31 seconds.
e.g. select from_unixtime(2147483648) returns "1900-01-00 00:00:00". I
suspect this is caused by the underlying time_t size that mysql was
compiled with. Is this so? Are any versions of mysql compiled with a
larger time_t?

+---------------------------+
| from_unixtime(2147483648) |
+---------------------------+
| 1900-01-00 00:00:00 |
+---------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> select unix_timestamp();
+------------------+
| u................................

Transform Date To Mysql Timestamp Via CSV Import
I have a CSV file (from excel) with contains personal data, like names, adress, and birth date. The birth date is in this format yyyy-mm-dd. I would like to import this CSV file into my MYsql database with the "import CSV file" function that is build in PHPmyadmin.

The problem is that I need UNIX timestamps in my database, and not the date in yyy-mm-dd format. Code:

GROUP BY Date With Variable Is Unix Time
I am saving the Unix time every time a record is created in a field called "Time" and would now like to write a report to group on Date ... is there a in-built function to do this ..

SELECT * FROM tblTemp GROUP BY [Date] ?

Date Search Mysql Question
I use this query on the DB
"SELECT * FROM {$_TABLES['events']} WHERE datestart >= date_sub(current_date, interval 3 month) ORDER BY datestart

My Date entries in mysql:
2004-12-10

Now My problem is I keep on getting the past entries in there.
What is wrong with my query?

How To Search A Column In MySQL (return Boolean)
trying to search a column in MySQL and returning a boolean result. How do I do this?

Like say search for $string=mice in column='food' of table 'dog'.

Timestamp Column
In a table I have a series of rows that, amongst other things, have a timestamp column. What I would like to do is select a specific row from the timestamp information (easy bit), but then I want to also collect the five previous entries by date/time.

How To Store Timestamp In A Column
I'm using PHP and found it unreliable when using the time() function passed
to a variable and then inserted in to the database - I can't understand why,
but I think the best solution would be for me to use the timestamp function
in MySQL.

How do I do this though? What is the syntax if I have a table called mytbl
and a column name called t with type timestamp.

Store Timestamp In A Column
I'm using PHP and found it unreliable when using the time() function passed
to a variable and then inserted in to the database - I can't understand why,
but I think the best solution would be for me to use the timestamp function
in MySQL.

How do I do this though? What is the syntax if I have a table called mytbl
and a column name called t with type timestamp.

Where The Date (timestamp) Is Greater Than Now
On my site I want to output all records in my database with two conditions

Where the date (timestamp) is greater than now but within the next 7 days?

Can anyone help? I've got a feeling I need to use interval, but not sure?

UPDATE Changes Unreferenced TIMESTAMP Column
I have a table demo defined like this:

>>create table DEMO (ID BIGINT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY , TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP, STATUS VARCHAR(10));

I insert a couple of values:
>> 1, 2007-08-31 10:10:10
>> 2, 2007-08-31 10:10:11
>> 3, 2007-08-31 10:10:12

Then I change the STATUS field with an UPDATE query, even the TIMESTAMP column changest to current_timestamp.

UPDATE demo SET status="hello" WHERE id=2;
>> 1, 2007-08-31 10:10:10
>> 2, 2007-08-31 09:06:45, hello
>> 3, 2007-08-31 10:10:12

I don't understand this behaviour. I havent references the TIMESTAMP column and hence expect it to be unmodified. Can it be that the TIMESTAMP has a DEFAULT_VALUE specification?

Probably not, because if I inser another column (DEFVAL INT DEFAULT 5) that colum does not change when updateing the STATUS field - only the TIMESTAMP does.

DATE / TIMESTAMP Default Values
im is having problems with auto inserting date in my table.

I dont know what is the default value i will set if column type to DATE. It was succesful though if is use the TIMESTAMP type in the column and is using CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as the dafault value. mysql automatically inserts the current date and time to the database everytime a new record is inserted. The problem with using TIMESTAMP is that i only want the date and not the additional time.

Is there a default value I can use for the DATE function instead of using TIMESTAMP? I already tried NOW(), CURDATE(), CURRENT_DATE() to no avail

Error #1293: There Can Be Only One TIMESTAMP Column With CURRENT_TIMESTAMP In DEFAULT Or ON UPDATE Clause
I am using MySQL 4.0/4.1 version. And I am trying to add two timestamp columns to a single table. The columns are insert_date and updat_date to capture the date/time the record was initially inserted as well as the date/time the record was last updated respectively.

When I try to set one column (insert_date) with a default value of CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and the other column (updat_date) with ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, I end up getting the following error:

#1293 - Incorrect table definition; there can be only one TIMESTAMP column with CURRENT_TIMESTAMP in DEFAULT or ON UPDATE clause

Is there any way around this problem?

Date Range Without Date Column
Suppose I have a table that says on which days I should eat certain foods:

+----+-------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
| Id | Name | Qty | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
+----+-------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
| 1 | Carrots | 3 | T | T | T | T | T | T | T |
| 2 | Cauliflower | 1 | T | T | T | T | T | T | T |
| 3 | Broccoli | 2 | T | T | T | T | T | T | T |
| 4 | Peas | 10 | F | F | F | F | F | T | T |
| 5 | Potatoes | 1 | T | T | T | F | F | F | F |
+----+-------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
And suppose this is the calendar:

August 2006
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031
For the days August 8 through August 10 inclusive, how can I figure out how much food I should eat with an SQL statement?

The answer should be:
9 carrots
3 cauliflowers
6 broccoli
2 potatoes

Search A SET Column?
I have a table with two columns, the first column is of type VARCHAR and the second of type SET.

column1(VARCHAR)column2(SET)
person1group1
person2group2
person3group1, group2

I want to retrieve everyone in "group1"...

> SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE column2 = 'group1';

Which returns only person1 and not person1 and persom3 as I want.

I have searched through the manual and found several ways to search for data matching several criteria (ANY, IN, SOME, ALL) but not "the other way around".

I guess what I'm really asking is how do I search within a column of type SET?

Adding A "date Added/date Modified" Column?
I want to have a column in my table that is automatically populated with the current date/time when record is inserted? Hopefully there is an easy way to do this that I don't know about.

Search Array Column
I'm trying to search an array in the database.

One of my fields has something like this:

1,2,22,224

So if I do:

WHERE Value LIKE '%2%'

It will return:
2,22,224

If I do:

WHERE Value = '2'

It will return nothing...

How can I just get '2' ?

Date Search Query Help
I'm trying to filter my search results by date. The field name I'm running this for is final_date and is a DATE field.

I want my results to show records that have sales_reps.final_date within the past 30 days.

Query:

SELECT
sales_reps.sr_id,
sales_reps.name,
sales_reps.job_number,
sales_reps.status,
sales_reps.stage,
UNIX_TIMESTAMP(sales_reps.final_date) as final_date,
UNIX_TIMESTAMP(sales_reps.date_to_shop) as date_to_shop,
shop_orders.community,
users.user_id,
u.fname,
u.lname,
users.builder,
users.division,
ei.shop_result,
ei.good_tape,
sa.shopper_id,
shop_orders.order_id,
UNIX_TIMESTAMP(shop_orders.date) as order_date,
pi.fname as pfname,
pi.lname as plname ,
ei.exit_id
FROM sales_reps
LEFT JOIN shop_orders ON sales_reps.order_id=shop_orders.order_id
LEFT JOIN users ON users.user_id=shop_orders.builder_id
LEFT JOIN report_types ON report_types.type_id=sales_reps.report_type
LEFT JOIN shop_assignments as sa ON sa.sr_id=sales_reps.sr_id
LEFT JOIN exit_interviews as ei ON ei.shop_id=sa.shop_id
LEFT JOIN users as u ON u.user_id=sa.shopper_id
LEFT JOIN users as pi ON pi.user_id=sa.pi_id
WHERE DATE_SUB(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 30 DAY) <=UNIX_TIMESTAMP(sales_reps.final_date)
AND (sales_reps.status = 'Completed' OR sales_reps.status = 'Rejected')
ORDER BY users.builder, users.division, community ASC, final_date ASC
Is this:

WHERE DATE_SUB(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 30 DAY) <=UNIX_TIMESTAMP(sales_reps.final_date)
incorrect?

I'm getting dates such as 2007-03-22 and 2007-03-19 in my result set and they shouldn't be there.

Could I get some pointers?

Search A Date Field
I have a date field defined as:

'created_date' timestamp NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00'

It is also an indexed KEY. What would be the fastest search on that field if my desired results were for records created during a specific month?

created_date LIKE '2007-07%'

created_date REGEXP '^2007-07'

created_date>'2007-07-01 00:00:00' AND created_date<'2007-08-01 00:00:00'

Thanks for your opinions.

BTW, if you know Perl do you think it would be faster for MySQL to give me created _date data as DAY(created_date) or for Perl to split the date (first on a space character and again on the hyphen character)?

Search Query By Date
I'm trying to adjust an older search query to perform a search by date where the date column is an INT field (unix date stamp).

SELECT * FROM incidents WHERE date < DATE_ADD (CURDATE(), INTERVAL $searchDate DAY);

Where date, formally a DATE field, is now an INT(11) field. $searchDate is an int, indicating how many days back to search. 1 (day), 5 (days), etc.I'm assuming mysql's DATE_ADD function is specific to the DATE field. How can I achieve the same result, but with an INT field?

Weighting A Column On FULLTEXT Search
Is it possible to weight one column as more important than another in a FULLTEXT search? Basically, I want to first search one column and if there are no results, then search a different column.

I searched mysql.com and couldn't find anything about doing this.

PHP

$get_article_ids = "
            SELECT article_id FROM unique_articles
            WHERE MATCH (article_title, article_text) AGAINST ('" . $article_query . "' IN BOOLEAN MODE)
            " . $ext_search_query . "
            " . $cat_article_includes . "
            ORDER BY article_id ASC
        ";

Ideally, I'd like to do something like this in my query:

PHP

IF (
    MATCH (article_title) AGAINST ('" . $article_query . "' IN BOOLEAN MODE)
) ELSE (
    MATCH (article_text) AGAINST ('" . $article_query . "' IN BOOLEAN MODE)
)

Search Table Column For Existing Value
I would like to search a table's column so that I can match an entered email address against the data in that column. I'm writing an aplication for an event and I don't want duplicate email addresses in the table. I'm using PHP4.

Fulltext Search Sort By Date?
How do you sort by a particular column (such as date) for fulltext search results? (example table:

id
url
category
blurb1
blurb2
date

MySQL Via Unix Sockets
I'm using java+JDBC connector. Where do I need to set up something to work with /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

Two Versions Of Mysql On Same Unix Box
I have mysql 3.23.58 version running on my unix box. I installed a new application on it which need mysql version > 4.0 so I thought of having two mysql versions running on the same unix box. I have first installation in /usr/local/mysql and I untared the new version in /var/local/mysql-standard-4.1.18-pc-linux-gnu-i686-glibc23.

I am following instructions given in http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/multiple-servers.html I also created a empty file and named it as mysql.sock.new and stored it in /var/local. When I try to start this new version from /var/local/mysql-standard-4.1.18-pc-linux-gnu-i686-glibc23 using ./bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/var/local/mysql-standard-4.1.18-pc-linux-gnu-i686-glibc23/data & it says "A mysqld process already exists". Please tell me where I am going wrong and how to configure it properly?

Mysql Unix Client
I there, I would like to know if there is a mysql client that we can use from unix to connect to a mysql windows server?

LIKE Search On Joined Table Column Syntax
I'm struggling with doing a wildcarded search between columns on a joined query. If I do the following:

select * from t1, t2 where t1.str1 like t2.str2

I get what I expect. However, if I do the following:

select * from t1, t2 where t1.str1 like '%t2.str2%'

I get no matches. Is the t2.str2 getting taken literally, and so there are no matches? If so, what is the proper syntaxt for this?

[Full Text Search] Passing Column To AGAINST()
Is there a way in any version of MySQL to pass a column name to AGAINST when doing a full text search.

I know the manual says no, but then this article says yes, sorta. Though I believe it may only be applicable to MySQL 5.x
http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources...t-revealed.html

An example of the query that I would like to use is somewhat similar to this (shortened to save time):

SELECT * FROM resumes, alerts
WHERE resumes.resume_id = 1 AND alerts.type = 'resume'
AND MATCH (resumes.content) AGAINST (alerts.keywords)

The purpose of this is to implement an alert system. The site has basic search functionality for resumes, however if a search doesn't yield resumes a user also has the option to save the search and be automatically alerted when a new resume is added to the DB that matches the search. The way to do this that made most sense to me is to just check all the saved searches (alerts) after a resume is added.

Part of the standard search however involves a full text search over the body of the resume, which is of course a piece of cake when matching resumes to a given search, however when I work it the other way around (matching alerts to a given resume) it's not so easy as I don't have a static string to use in AGAINST().

So is there way around this and if not is there any other way to do this that doesn't checking each and every alert individually? (The system could easily get into the hundreds of thousands of alerts eventually.)

Search A Table For A Date With DateTime Variables
i have a table with two columns, id and DateTime (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS). I want to find all rows with a certain date (YYYY-MM-DD). how can i do this, is there a kind of wildcard that will allow any "time" when search for a DateTime?

Mysql 5.0 - Using My.cnf - Unix / Slow-query-log
I installed mysql 5.0 and need to set up slow-query-log and other logging options.

Here is what I did. But I dont see it working yet.

1. cd /var/db/mysql
2. chown mysql slowquery.log
3. touch /usr/local/etc/my.cnf
4. chown mysql /usr/local/etc/my.cnf

vi my.cnf

[mysqld_safe]
-u mysql
--log-slow-queries=/var/db/mysql/slowquery.log

so now when I type:

mysqladmin shutdown
and than

mysqld_safe &
my sql restarts but the log files are not being used.
also - how do I know if my my.cnf is being used at all?

Needed Help With Uninstalling MySQL 5 On Mac/Unix
I have MySQL 5 on my Mac 10.4 and I want to completely uninstall it because I think I have MySQL 4 running on it too. I'm not too sure how to check for this. I'm not the best with administrating a database.

Calling MySQL In Unix In One Line
I'm running MySQL in Unix and I need to run mysql without ever actually going into mysql. Basically I need to open the database, do what i need to do to the database and exit all in one line of code.

If I have to, I could save the sql in a file and go
mysql -h localhost -u ______ -p _________ << mysqlcode.txt
or something with Unix redirection/piping.

However, I'd like to do something more like
mysql -h localhost -u _________ -p ________ - (use tempdatabase; select * from test;)

Is there anyway to do this. The -e paramater looks like it might do that, but I can't figure out how to use it.

How To Search Phone Number Column With Inconsistent Formats
I'm working with a legacy database that stores phone numbers in whatever format the customer entered them in an online form. This might be:

(212) 555-1234
212.555.1234
2125551234
etc.

We now need to implement searchability on this field. Although it would be possible to refactor the code that stores phone numbers to start storing them all in a standardized format, I'm wondering if there's a way to avoid that.

Is there a way, perhaps using REGEXP, to search that column for 2125551234 and return any of the above examples?

Something like running s/[^0-9]//gi on the column before searching?

Return Context From Large Column In Keyword Search
Consider this query:
Code:

SELECT Ticket,Content FROM Attachments,Transactions
WHERE Transactions.id=Attachments.TransactionId
AND Content LIKE "%Keyword%";

The 'Attachments' column is quite large. How could I limit the returned text to say 25 characters before and after the keyword?

Invoking A MySql Stored Procedure From C In Unix
I've this problem where I have to invoke a MySql stored procedure from my C program. I searched a lot for this. But I couldn't find any solution to this problem.

How Do I Change Which Editor The Mysql Unix Client Uses?
Is it possible to tell the mysql client which editor to use when a user types "edit" at the mysql command prompt? I looked in the mysql client manuals online, but there was nothing about setting editor pref's.

Unable To Create Full Text Search Index On A Column
I have installed MySQL 5.0 on my WinXP machine. I have created a test schema in which I have created a test table as follows:

Test_Table
{
Id => Integer and Primary Key
Name => Char(255)
Address => Char(255)
Tags => TEXT
}

Now I want to create a full text seach index on column Tags, but when ever I try to execute following SQL statement:

ALTER TABLE `TEST_TABLE` ADD FULLTEXT `Index_FTS`(`Tags`);

I get following error:

Error while executing query:
ALTER TABLE `TEST_TABLE` ADD FULLTEXT `Index_FTS`(`Tags`);
MySQL Error Number 1283
Column 'Tags' cannot be part of FULLTEXT index.

My table is MyISAM based table.

Date Column
I am inserting records with PHP, and having a problem with MySql not getting the date in a Date field.

I am using this in the insert code:
$ORDD=date("F j, Y");

But when I look at the record after inserting, the field just show:
0000-00-00

My obvious thought is a date format issue. I could possibly cheat and make the column Varchar, but I will need to query dates later.

Search MYSQL Date Column With Unix Timestamp?

I want to search for records that are ON or After a certain date in a column that uses MYSQL date form (yyyy-mm-dd) with a unix timestamp.