Now mysql Was {Sql help, for electronic meter reading}

["Paul Smith" <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Guys, a big thank you for all the responses so far.


It would seem that I may have missed out some key information


I have installed mysql 4.1.10a on my server.

I have a simple vb app which every minute dumps the following into a
table (electric) in a database (meter-readings)

In the table the are 3 columns

Count	Reading	Date

So VB dumps 20 and 2005-03-29 20:00:00 into the table, count is just an
incremental number


Using the mysql query browser and

SELECT Sum(reading) AS Reading FROM `electric` where Date between
'2005-03-29 12:00:00' and '2005-03-29 13:00:00'

Returns a sum of all the reading between 12 and 1 o'clock.

What I was trying to then achieve was as Doogie spotted, a table with
the sum for each hour.

Such that I get

Hour	Total
0	20
1	19
2	19
.
.
.
23	40


So Graham, Doogie and Neil

Came up with things like this

SELECT date part(hh,Date) AS HourOfDay, Sum(reading) AS Reading FROM
`electric` where Date between '2005-03-29 00:00:00' and '2005-03-29
23:59:59'
group by datepart(hh,Date)

Select datepart(hour,Date) as ReadingHour, sum(reading) as Reading FROM
'electric' where Date between '2005-03-29' and '2005-03-30'
GROUP BY Datepart(Hour,Date)

SELECT sum(reading) AS Reading FROM electric where DATE >= DATEADD(dd,
DATEDIFF(dd,0,getdate()), 0) group by reading


Which all look good and I can see where you are coming from. However
when I put these into the query browser I get errors.

So I've been goggling for mysql and datepart and dateadd and have drawn
a blank. Is it that these commands haven't been implemented.

If needs be I'll bin mysql and install MS sql 2000 if that's helps.


Many thanks for all your help












Paul Smith



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