Last 2 years with Workbench

Grunny

I am trying to pull a table from a database that is really big.  So, I would like to only have the last 2 years worth.  I have a column that has the order start date, but the format is like this 2005-07-26 14:25:00 -05:00

Was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction with this.

dthierjung

How familiar are you with SQL?

 

You should be able to apply a simple where clause like the following:

 

SELECT 
		*
FROM 
		dbo.TableName
WHERE
		`order_start_date` > DATEADD(yy,-2,GETDATE())

 If you have to, you can try casting or converting the `order_start_date` column to a datetime that SQL understands.

Grunny

When i put that in i get the following during preview:

[02.21.19 08:29:23 AM] Query String: SELECT * FROM OpOrder
WHERE 'OrderStartDateOffset' > DATEADD(yy,-2,GETDATE())
[02.21.19 08:29:25 AM] One or more errors occurred.
ERROR [22007] [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string.

 

guitarhero23

What datatype is your date stored as?

dthierjung

Oh, my apologies. You need to remove the apostrophes from around your column name. I had originally incldued them in my example just as a way of showing the column name should go here.

 

So the query would be (with removed apostrophes from around OrderStartDateOffset):

SELECT

              *

FROM

              OpOrder
WHERE

              OrderStartDateOffset > DATEADD(yy,-2,GETDATE())

 

 

And with what guitarhero23 has asked, if your datatype for that column is a string, you'll need to cast it to a DateTime, possibly using this:

CAST(OrderStartDateOffset as datetime)

 

But let me know if the first suggestion doesn't help fix the error.