Srikanth wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have a table that records User Login Sessions with two timestamp fields. Basically Start of Session and End of a
Session(start_ts and end_ts). Each row in the table identifies a session which a customer has used.
>
> Data from the table (session):
> -----------------------------
> customer_id | log_session_id | start_ts | end_ts
> -------------+-----------------+----------------------------+----------------------------
> 1006100716 | 209571229340224 | 15/12/2008 16:53:52.665327 | 15/12/2008 16:58:52.665327
> 1006100789 | 112061228488202 | 05/12/2008 20:13:32.773065 | 09/12/2008 22:59:02.770218
> 1006100888 | 214221233045949 | 27/01/2009 14:15:16.289626 | 27/01/2009 14:58:59.989182
> 1006000008 | 205221236839534 | 12/03/2009 12:02:15.947509 | 12/03/2009 12:07:15.947509
> 1006100825 | 112331229068049 | 12/12/2008 13:17:37.229249 | 12/12/2008 13:56:58.394577
>
>
> The requirement is as follows,
>
> I have to find out how many User Sessions that were present in any given "1 HOUR TIME PERIOD". A single User Session
canspan across many days.
SELECT * FROM session WHERE (start_ts,end_ts) OVERLAPS (<start-of-hour>,
<end-of-hour>);
> I tried using wildcards in timestamp '07/01/2009 11:%:%" but in vain.
I tries googling / searching archives without any success either.
I'd have thought OVERLAPS would be mentioned in the date/time handling
sections of the manual.
-- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd