Re: [Q] Frusturating SQL question
Posted in 1996
Try this:
Select lname, fname, vendor, status, lastmod
from visitors
where DATE(lastmod) = TODAY
order by 3,2,1
Byte byte!
Mario R. Canto
mcanto@unl.edu.ar
On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Saqib Mausoof wrote:
} I hope someone can help me out of this frustaration. I have a
} tbale in Informix 5.01 that hold information for visitors to our
} site. I need to print out a simple report which shows the number
} of visitors and their time of arrival at midnight everday. A
} simple cron job unloads my query into an ascii file and with a
} little awk manipulation I print the file to the remote site.
}
} Unfortunately, I can't get my SIMPLE query to work. My date
} column is LASTMOD (DATETIME YEAR TO MINUTE) and I need to get
} data for just one day. My query is
}
} Select lname, fname, vendor, status, lastmod
} from visitors
} where lastmod = TODAY (YEAR TO MINUTE)
} order by 3,2,1
}
} This does not work, obviously. But what does work? Any ideas?
}
} I would be gald of any help.
} Saqib