Question

i have one table in my database say mytable, which contents request coming from other source. There is one column in this table as Time, which stores date and time(e.g. 2010/07/10 01:21:43) when request was received. Now i want to fetch the data from this table on hourly basis for each day. Means i want count of requests database receive in each hours of a day. e.g.for 1 o’clock to 2 o’clock say count is 50 ..like this.. I will run this query at the end of day. So i will get requests received in a day group by each hour.

Can anybody help me in this.

I want query which will take less time to fetch the data as my database size is huge.

Any othre way than OMG Ponies answer.

Answer 1

Use the TO_CHAR function to format the DATETIME column, so you can GROUP BY it for aggregate functions:

  SELECT TO_CHAR(t.time, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24') AS hourly,
         COUNT(*) AS numPerHour
    FROM YOUR_TABLE t
GROUP BY TO_CHAR(t.time, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24')