lookup table for minutes of a day

  • Does anyone know if a website or have a query that generates a table with a row for each minute of the day starting 2 years ago and going 10 years into future?

    Need it to have values in one minute increments (1440 rows/minutes for each day):

    2013-10-07 04:32

    2013-10-07 04:33

    2013-10-07 04:34

    2013-10-07 04:35

    2013-10-07 04:36

    2013-10-07 04:37

    Thanks!

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  • Using a Tally Table (or in this case a CTE) it's really easy to do it.

    Here's an example:

    WITH e1(n) AS(

    SELECT * FROM (VALUES(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1))x(n)

    ),

    e2(n) AS(

    SELECT e1.n FROM e1, e1 x

    ),

    e4(n) AS(

    SELECT e2.n FROM e2, e2 x

    ),

    e8(n) AS(

    SELECT e4.n FROM e4, e4 x

    ),

    cteTally(n) AS(

    SELECT TOP 6307204 ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY (SELECT NULL)) - 1

    FROM e8

    ),

    Test(n) AS(

    SELECT DATEADD( minute, n, DATEADD( YEAR, -2, GETDATE()))

    FROM cteTally)

    SELECT MIN(n), MAX(n)

    FROM Test

    WHERE n <= DATEADD( YEAR, 10, GETDATE())

    It won't give you the exact table you need but at least you'll have to analyze it to use it. If you have questions, feel free to ask.

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  • well, this gives me a table with one row containing two values:

    2011-10-07 16:11:56.3432023-10-04 16:14:56.343

    I changed to Select *.

    Thanks for the answer with the bonus mini - puzzle Luis. I thought I wouldn't be able to do it but I did! 🙂

    WITH e1(min) AS(

    SELECT * FROM (VALUES(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1))x(n)

    ),

    e2(min) AS(

    SELECT e1.min FROM e1, e1 x

    ),

    e4(min) AS(

    SELECT e2.min FROM e2, e2 x

    ),

    e8(min) AS(

    SELECT e4.min FROM e4, e4 x

    ),

    cteTally(min) AS(

    SELECT TOP 6307204 ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY (SELECT NULL)) - 1

    FROM e8

    ),

    Test(min) AS(

    SELECT DATEADD( minute, min, DATEADD( YEAR, -2, GETDATE()))

    FROM cteTally)

    SELECT *

    FROM Test

    WHERE min <= DATEADD( YEAR, 10, GETDATE())

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  • for bonus bonus, can you show me how to get just the date and minutes? eg. 2011-10-20 21:45

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  • If you wan't for display, you can convert to string using convert.

    To remove seconds from the datetime, you can do something different.

    Either you specify the exact time to start or you can calculate it.

    SELECT DATEADD( MINUTE, DATEDIFF( MINUTE, 0, DATEADD( YEAR, -2, GETDATE())), 0)

    By the way, you can remove a CTE, I just added to show the ranges without showing all the lines.

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  • I am making a permanent table. But I need the datetime without the zeros on end.

    just

    2009-10-20 21:45

    not

    2009-10-20 21:45:00.000

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  • polkadot (10/7/2013)


    I am making a permanent table. But I need the datetime without the zeros on end.

    just

    2009-10-20 21:45

    not

    2009-10-20 21:45:00.000

    A DATETIME data type will always have those zeroes on the end.


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  • Hi,

    You can try with help of replace and convert functions

    REPLACE(CONVERT(CHAR(16),DATEADD( MINUTE, DATEDIFF( MINUTE, 0, DATEADD( YEAR, -2, GETDATE())), 0), 126), 'T', ' ')

  • parulprabu, Thanks for the help.

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