Add times

SQL Statement.

Adding times together.

I am trying to add a list of times together retrieved from my database.

They are from seperate records in the same table.

They are in a date format e.g. 01-Jan-2006 03:45:00, what I want to do is ignore the 01-Jan-2006 part as well as the :00 AM part and focus on the hours and minutes. I wish to add these up e.g. 03:45 + 04:45 = 08:30. Is there an easy way of doing this?

Below is the SQL statement of getting times from my database if its any help.

SQL Statement

SELECT LENGTH_OF_VISIT FROM NOV.MAIN;

Returned Results

30-Apr-2007 02:00:00 AM

30-Apr-2007 01:00:00 AM

01-Jan-2006 02:30:00 PM

01-Jan-2006 03:10:00 PM

30-Apr-2007 01:00:00 AM

Hi Ric

This forum is specific to SQL Server Data Mining. You'll probably get a better answer by posting to the T-SQL forum at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=85&SiteID=1

You can extract the parts of your datetime field using the DATEPART function as:

SELECT DATEPART(LENGTH_OF_VISIT, hh) as Hour, DATEPART(LENGTH_OF_VISIT, mm) as AS Minute from Nov.Main.

Then you can wrap an aggregate ADD function to add the values from different records.

SELECT ADD(DATEPART(LENGTH_OF_VISIT, hh) * 60 + DATEPART(LENGTH_OF_VISIT, mm)) from Nov.Main

Please look at the documentation of DATEPART for more usage examples

Hope this helps

Add blank rows to table

Hello,
I need to create a report with a fixed number of table rows. For example:
the table is fixed at 20 rows per page regardless of data retrieved. If say
10 rows are filled with data then the rest are blanks. If 25 rows of data is
retrieved then the first page is filled and next page has 5 rows filled with
the rest blank. I also need a running row number in the first column. I've
managed that with "RowNumber(Nothing)" but I am not sure if it will work with
blank rows too. Is there any way to accomplish this? Through report
designer or custom code?
Thanks,
RodneyI would add rows to the source dataset. If the data is coming from a stored
procedure, append a dummy column to the end of the dataset and put a 1 in it
if the row contained data and a 2 if it did not (this way you have something
to sort on so that the blank rows are at the end of the report. Use a
count() in the stored procedure to determine how many rows to append to the
end of the dataset.
"Rodney" wrote:
> Hello,
> I need to create a report with a fixed number of table rows. For example:
> the table is fixed at 20 rows per page regardless of data retrieved. If say
> 10 rows are filled with data then the rest are blanks. If 25 rows of data is
> retrieved then the first page is filled and next page has 5 rows filled with
> the rest blank. I also need a running row number in the first column. I've
> managed that with "RowNumber(Nothing)" but I am not sure if it will work with
> blank rows too. Is there any way to accomplish this? Through report
> designer or custom code?
> Thanks,
> Rodney|||How would I append blank rows to a select query? Are you suggesting a
temporary table where the data and blank rows are dumped into? Would this be
a problem in a multiuser app?
"Kebler" wrote:
> I would add rows to the source dataset. If the data is coming from a stored
> procedure, append a dummy column to the end of the dataset and put a 1 in it
> if the row contained data and a 2 if it did not (this way you have something
> to sort on so that the blank rows are at the end of the report. Use a
> count() in the stored procedure to determine how many rows to append to the
> end of the dataset.
> "Rodney" wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I need to create a report with a fixed number of table rows. For example:
> > the table is fixed at 20 rows per page regardless of data retrieved. If say
> > 10 rows are filled with data then the rest are blanks. If 25 rows of data is
> > retrieved then the first page is filled and next page has 5 rows filled with
> > the rest blank. I also need a running row number in the first column. I've
> > managed that with "RowNumber(Nothing)" but I am not sure if it will work with
> > blank rows too. Is there any way to accomplish this? Through report
> > designer or custom code?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Rodney