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Excel addable time function – Friday Function

August 17, 2012 12:30 pm / 2 Comments /

For the third in the series I am going to look at the little doosie that was presented to me the other day where the seconds of time passed from a system are presented as an integer and needed converting to a time, when I say a time I mean a time that will add up in MS Excel where the hour part could be over 24, so not strictly a valid DB2 time.

We have a new VOIP phone system here at work and apart from all the times (call start, call end, logged on, logged off) being in the number of seconds from 01/01/1970 (Unix time) so DB2 can handle this very well adding the timestamp of 01/01/1970 with the seconds and you get the correct timestamp of the call. The other interesting thing it does is it records all call times in seconds and this needs converting to hh:mm:ss for reporting purposes. To do this I was reminded by a colleague of the MOD function that DB2 has. MOD returns the remainder as an integer, opposed to the number of times the value will dived.

So you can do something like this to get the hours, minutes and seconds as a VALUES statement where <INTEGER> is the total seconds:

VALUES TRIM(VARCHAR((<INTEGER> / 3600))) || 'h' || TRIM(VARCHAR((MOD(<INTEGER>,3600)) / 60)) || 'm' || TRIM(VARCHAR(MOD(MOD(<INTEGER>,3600 / 60), 60))) || 's'

If you substituted <INTEGER> for 3681 it returns the result:

 1       
 ------- 
 1h1m21s

Which as far as I can work out is correct. There are 3600 seconds in an hour, so to work out hours then you divide seconds by 3600, to get minutes you use MOD to get the remainder of the passed in value and then divide by sixty (the result of MOD will still be in seconds) the result of the division because it is an integer will be returned as an integer so there are some second s remaining. To work out the seconds remaining then you need to MOD the value from the working out the number of minuits to get the seconds.

So then the next step is too produce a function that returns a time:

CREATE FUNCTION GLOBAL.GET_TIME (IN IN_SECONDS INTEGER)
DETERMINISTIC
NO EXTERNAL ACTION
RETURNS VARCHAR(10)
LANGUAGE SQL
BEGIN ATOMIC
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    --Phil C - 14/06/2012
    --Takes in an integer and returns a varchar representation of a time for 
    -- use in excel as opposed to anything beging a valid DB2 time type
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    --Create some vars
    DECLARE OUT_TIME VARCHAR(10);
    DECLARE HOUR_PART INTEGER;
    DECLARE MIN_PART INTEGER;
    DECLARE SEC_PART INTEGER;
    DECLARE HOUR_PART_V VARCHAR(5);
    DECLARE MIN_PART_V VARCHAR(3);
    DECLARE SEC_PART_V VARCHAR(2);

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    --Set some vars
    SET HOUR_PART = (IN_SECONDS / 3600);
    SET MIN_PART = (MOD(IN_SECONDS,3600) / 60);
    SET SEC_PART = (MOD(MOD(IN_SECONDS,3600 / 60), 60));

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    --Fattern the values out
    IF (HOUR_PART < 10) THEN
        SET HOUR_PART_V = '0' || TRIM(VARCHAR(HOUR_PART)) || ':';
    ELSE
        SET HOUR_PART_V = TRIM(VARCHAR(HOUR_PART)) || ':';
    END IF;

    IF (MIN_PART < 10) THEN
        SET MIN_PART_V = '0' || TRIM(VARCHAR(MIN_PART)) || ':';
    ELSE
        SET MIN_PART_V = TRIM(VARCHAR(MIN_PART)) || ':';
    END IF;

    IF (SEC_PART < 10) THEN
        SET SEC_PART_V = '0' || TRIM(VARCHAR(SEC_PART));
    ELSE
        SET SEC_PART_V = TRIM(VARCHAR(SEC_PART));
    END IF;

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    --Create the end value
    SET OUT_TIME = (HOUR_PART_V || MIN_PART_V || SEC_PART_V);

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    --Return the value
    RETURN OUT_TIME;

END

So this will return a time like result up to 9999:59:59 and you will be able to export a result set to Excel or the like and then it can be added up. DB2 will not accept this as a time! So when you run this:

VALUES GLOBAL.GET_TIME(3681)

Returns

 1        
 -------- 
 01:01:21

Which is the same result as at the start so I think the function is a good one. Till next time happy UDF’ing



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Time to “English” – Friday Function

July 20, 2012 12:00 pm / 2 Comments /

I though about starting a new series that I will add to over time the Friday function, I might not be able to create something as useful as Serge Rielau (@srielau) but maybe it will helpful to someone. Over the last few days I have been asked to some interesting things with “my” data like converting times to a more “friendly” format.

The ask

To convert my nicely cleansed times (19:47:45 or 04:23:32) from various non standard sources (the wonders of Big Data) into a time format that is more compatible with your average email reader (7:47pm or 4:23am) as opposed to a techie that might be all right with the nice 24 hour times. I did a lot of searching around and I could not find any inbuilt functions of DB2 LUW that would do this and so I had to create my own user defined function. Please if you know of anything feel free to correct me, but searching the info center then there was nothing.

DB2 Time to “English” – Code

CREATE FUNCTION GLOBAL.CONVERT_TIME_12H(IN_TIME TIME)
DETERMINISTIC
NO EXTERNAL ACTION
RETURNS VARCHAR(10)
LANGUAGE SQL
BEGIN ATOMIC
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    --Takes 24hrs time in gives back 12hrs time suffixed with AM or PM
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    DECLARE OUT_TIME VARCHAR(10);

    IF(INT(LEFT(IN_TIME,2)) <= 12) THEN
        SET OUT_TIME = LEFT(IN_TIME,5) || 'am';

        IF(INT(LEFT(IN_TIME,2)) IN (10,11)) THEN
            RETURN REPLACE(OUT_TIME,'.',':');
        ELSE
            RETURN REPLACE(SUBSTR(OUT_TIME,1),'.',':');
        END IF;

    ELSE
        IF(INT(LEFT(IN_TIME,2)) = 24) THEN
            SET OUT_TIME = '00:00am';
        ELSE
            SET OUT_TIME = LEFT((IN_TIME - 12 HOURS),5) || 'pm';
        END IF;

        RETURN REPLACE(OUT_TIME,'.',':');
    END IF;

END

As you can see it takes in standard DB2 time, and I think managed to get all the gotchas like midnight not being 12 hours less. The downside of this function is that the format becomes text and therefore not useable so would not recommend using it for anything but for human format. As I said before if you know of a function to do this in DB2 that is built in I would love to know.

Future articles

In future Friday Functions then I will look at covering non standard asks that I have been required to do. I think after this one I will be needing to create a function to “elongate” a date!



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