Question

I have a security log table with 4 cols:

UserID, LOGINDate, LOGINTime, ClickEvents

Now I am trying to get a hourly traffic table for past 7 days, which is like:

   DAY1 |  DAY2 | DAY3 |  DAY4 |.... |DAY7
1   0   |    1  |   12 |  4567 |     | 43
2
3
4
5
:
:
24

can you show me or give me some idea how to make this table by using SQL?

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marc_s Thanks for your quick reply. what I have now is :

select  LOGINDate, SUBSTRING(LOGINTime, 1, 2) as 'HoTime', COUNT( *)
From SECLOG
where (CONVERT(varchar( 8) , GETDATE()-7, 112) <= LOGINDate)

group by LOGINDate, SUBSTRING(LOGINTime, 1, 2)
order by LOGINDate, HoTime

which produces me a table like

DATE | HoTime | No of
0926 | 1      | 2
0926 | 2      | 4
0926 | 14     | 6

also it skips the hour without no data.

Answer 1

First do a query that groups by date and hour summing the click events for each hour for the last 7 days.
Then you need to pivot that result so you get the days as a columns. That can be done with a group by on hour and using a case statement in the field list testing for the day number.

To get zero as a value when there are no events in an hour you can use a numbers table that return 1-24 and left join your result set.

Something like this for SQL Server 2008 where you have the date data type.

with C as
(
  select datediff(day, LoginDate, getdate()) as DD, 
         LoginTime,
         sum(ClickEvents) as ClickEvents
  from YourTable
  where LoginDate >= dateadd(day, -7, cast(getdate() as date))
  group by LoginDate, LoginTime
), H as
(
  select 1 as LoginTime
  union all
  select H.LoginTime+1
  from H
  where H.LoginTime < 24
)  
select H.LoginTime, 
       sum(case DD when 1 then C.ClickEvents else 0 end) as Day1,
       sum(case DD when 2 then C.ClickEvents else 0 end) as Day2,
       sum(case DD when 3 then C.ClickEvents else 0 end) as Day3,
       sum(case DD when 4 then C.ClickEvents else 0 end) as Day4,
       sum(case DD when 5 then C.ClickEvents else 0 end) as Day5,
       sum(case DD when 6 then C.ClickEvents else 0 end) as Day6,
       sum(case DD when 7 then C.ClickEvents else 0 end) as Day7
from H
  left outer join C
    on C.LoginTime = H.LoginTime
group by H.LoginTime
order by H.LoginTime;

Try it on SE Data