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The document discusses various date and time functions in SQL including extracting parts of a datetime like year, month, day from a timestamp. It also provides examples of calculating durations between datetimes, finding the minimum and maximum dates for a customer, and counting number of purchases within a date range.

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SQL 06 Window and Date Time Functions 3

The document discusses various date and time functions in SQL including extracting parts of a datetime like year, month, day from a timestamp. It also provides examples of calculating durations between datetimes, finding the minimum and maximum dates for a customer, and counting number of purchases within a date range.

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SQL-06 |

Date and Time Functions


Lecture Queries
Creation of datetime_demo table
CREATE TABLE farmers_market.datetime_demo AS
(
SELECT market_date,
market_start_time,
market_end_time,
STR_TO_DATE(CONCAT(market_date, ' ', market_start_time), '%Y-%m-%d
%h:%i %p')
AS market_start_datetime,
STR_TO_DATE(CONCAT(market_date, ' ', market_end_time), '%Y-%m-%d
%h:%i %p')
AS market_end_datetime
FROM farmers_market.market_date_info
Question: From each market_start_datetime, extract the following:
● day of week,
● month of year,
SELECT
● year, market_start_datetime,
EXTRACT(DAY FROM
● hour and market_start_datetime) AS start_day,
● minute from the timestamp EXTRACT(YEAR FROM
market_start_datetime) AS date_year,
EXTRACT(MONTH FROM
market_start_datetime) AS month_of_year,
EXTRACT(HOUR FROM
market_start_datetime) AS hour_of_day,
EXTRACT(MINUTE FROM
market_start_datetime) AS minute_of_time
FROM farmers_market.datetime_demo;
Question: Let’s say you want to calculate how many sales occurred within the first 30
minutes after the farmer’s market opened, how would you dynamically determine what
cutoff time to use?

SELECT market_start_datetime,
DATE_ADD(market_start_datetime, INTERVAL 30 MINUTE) AS mktstrt_date_
plus_30min
FROM farmers_market.datetime_demo

SELECT market_start_datetime, market_end_datetime,


TIMESTAMPDIFF(HOUR, market_start_datetime,
market_end_datetime)
AS market_duration_hours,
TIMESTAMPDIFF(MINUTE, market_start_datetime,
market_end_datetime)
AS market_duration_mins
FROM farmers_market.datetime_demo
Question: Let’s say we wanted to get a profile of each farmer’s
market customer’s habits over time.

1. First purchase - date


2. Last purchase - date
3. Count of distinct purchases
SELECT customer_id,
MIN(market_date) AS first_purchase,
MAX(market_date) AS last_purchase,
COUNT(DISTINCT market_date) AS count_of_purchase_dates,
DATEDIFF(MAX(market_date), MIN(market_date)) AS days_between_first_
last_purchase,
DATEDIFF(CURDATE(), MAX(market_date)) AS days_since_last_purchase
FROM farmers_market.customer_purchases
GROUP BY customer_id
Question: Write a query that gives us the days between each purchase a
customer makes.

SELECT
x.customer_id,
x.market_date,
LAG(x.market_date, 1) OVER(PARTITION BY
x.customer_id ORDER BY x.market_date) AS last_prchs,
DATEDIFF(x.market_date, LAG(x.market_date, 1)
OVER(PARTITION BY x.customer_id ORDER BY
x.market_date)) AS days_bw_prch
FROM (
SELECT DISTINCT customer_id,
market_date
FROM customer_purchases
) AS x
Question: today’s date is May 31, 2019, and the marketing director of the farmer’s market wants to give
infrequent customers an incentive to return to the market in June.

SELECT
customer_id,
COUNT(DISTINCT market_date) AS
market_count
FROM customer_purchases
WHERE DATEDIFF('2019-05-31',
market_date) BETWEEN 0 AND 31
GROUP BY customer_id
HAVING market_count = 1
Question: Today’s date is May 31, 2019, and the marketing director of the farmer’s market wants to
give infrequent customers(with only 1 purchase) an incentive to return to the market in April.

SELECT x.customer_id,
COUNT(DISTINCT x.market_date) AS market_count
FROM (
SELECT DISTINCT customer_id, market_date
FROM farmers_market.customer_purchases
WHERE DATEDIFF(market_date, '2019-05-31') <= 31
)x
GROUP BY x.customer_id
HAVING COUNT(DISTINCT market_date) = 1
Reference DateTime Functions
- https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/date-and-time-functions.html

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