Retrieving time value using getTimestamp

Hi, I like to retrieve date fields from Oracle9i database using getTimestamp. This works fine if the Date field has a date in it, or is null. However , if I try to retrieve a date field which only has a time component , say it is being used to store someones start time for their job (:-((((, then it fails with a format exception.
I can obviously use some other get , but why shouldn't I be able to retrieve a pure time value from a date using getTimestamp (0900 AM).
Is there any other way which would let me retrieve this using getTimestamp. I would like to keep all my date/times get and sets from the database as Timestamps.
Thanks in anticipation , Colin C
Exception was .... java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Timestamp format must be yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss.fffffffff; nested exception is:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Timestamp format must be yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss.fffffffff

Hi Colin,
I just answered this very same question you asked in Oracle's Technet forum. I will explicitly state what I implicitly hinted at in that response.
If you supply details of your platform/environment, plus the full error message and stack trace you are getting, as well as the part of your code that you believe to be causing the problem, I may be able to help you resolve it.
Good Luck,
Avi.

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I have modified the Numbers employee schedule template to my liking and it works very well. I would like to add a column to the beginning which shows, at a glance, how many people I have scheduled for AM shifts and PM shifts on a given day. My AM shifts start at 9:00 AM and my PM shifts end at 6:30 or 8:30 PM.
So I thought I could use COUNTIF, but after I set the array, I cannot get the condition right to return anything except "0". How do you make it detect the appropriate times? The times in each cell for In and Out times are selected using a pop-up menu, just like the template.
Here is what I tried: =COUNTIF(E3:AE3,"9:00 AM")
What should the condition be to return a proper count?

ac,
You shouldn't feel badly about having trouble with this template. It is a rather tricky one. The values in the Pop-Up menus are Date/Time values. That is to say, they have year, month, day, hour and minute components, even if only the hours and minutes are displayed. So if you only compare to the hours and minutes, you will never get a match.
I don't know if you have experienced this yet, but when you changed the Pop-Up menu content, you probably entered the current year, month and day unknowingly and will have trouble doing math against the Pop-Up content that was originally in the template.
My suggestion in your case would be to convert the time references to decimal hours before doing a comparison. For instance, if the time you wish to compare to is in cell C4, you could extract the decimal hours with =HOUR(C4)+MINUTE(C4)/60
Remember that the hours will reflect a 24-hour day, so times in the afternoon will run from 12.0 to 23.99...
Then after converting to decimal, instead of using "9:00 AM" for the COUNTIF criteria, use 9.
There are probably ways to do this using the Duration format as well, but I prefer the decimal hours.
Hope this helps.
Jerry

How can I use two drop down lists for one time value?

I want to enter the length of time that someone does an activity in hours and minutes using two drop down lists, then enter them as a single time value (H:i:s) in Mysql.
I've used the basic drop down lists, and a few different variations of the following with no success (seconds is a hidden field with a value of "00"):
GetSQLValueString(strftime('%H:%i:%s', strtotime($_POST["sleeptimemin"]." ".$_POST["sleeptimehr"]." ".$_POST["seconds"])), "date"),
This returns 00:00:16, no matter what is selected on the drop down list.
Any help would be appreciated.

MySQL stores times in human-understandable format, using the 24-hour clock.
GetSQLValueString($_POST['sleeptimehr'] . ':' . $_POST['sleeptimemin'] . ':00', "date"),

How do I retrieve data from a 500 GB Time Machine used as external hard drive?

I have a very particular situation. For several years I used a 500GB Time Machine as a wi-fi broadcaster, a back up, and also as external storage for iTunes - I 'partitioned' it to allow for it's use as an external drive.
Fast forward, and I've replaced the Time Machine with a new 3 TB Time Machine, as well as purchased a separate external drive (3 TB Western Digital) to store my iTunes files (so I no longer need to partition). The new Time Machine is my wi-fu hub.
The problem: I need to retrieve the 300 gb of audio files that are on my old partitioned Time Machine, and move them to my new WD external drive. I've already set up the new Time Machine as my wi-fi broadcaster, and de-activated the old Time Machine.
(I had tried to move the files previous to setting up the new Time Machine, but I realized after de-activating it that I wasn't as thorough as I thought, so I need to go back and move them again.)
I've tried to re-connect to the old Time Machine using an ethernet cable, but when I do, it recognizes it as my wi-fi hub, and it screws up my network - it suddenly allows me access to the old Time Machine, but blocks access to the new WD external drive.
So in a nutshell - I need to be able to connect the old Time Machine to my laptop (a Macbook running OS X 10.7.5) and have my new network see it as just an external drive - so I can then move the 300 GB of audio files directly on to my new WD external drive.
Any thoughts on how I can do this?

Why not connect both drives to the computer, turn off the wi-fi, and then copy the files over. Or you can use Disk Utility/Restore to move the files. See the note - it will erase the WD drive.
You can then set things back to the way you want them. You should have more than one back up as hard drives do fail. In this case, you could use a clone and keep it on the WD drive.
Clone - Carbon Copy Cloner (Often recommended as it has more features than some others)
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Report Retrieval Times in BPCv7 SP3 using SQL 2008

General Information: We are a two server environment, one WEB and one SQL, using SQL 2008. We are using BPC v7 SP3. In our devlopment environment, we have selected a handful of reports to use as a benchmark against our production version of Outlooksoft version 4.
Problem: The benchmark reports are taking longer to retrieve in BPC v7 then they are in Outlooksoft version 4 SP9. We have stripped out the dimension formulas, unchecked the INAPP for each dimension property, reset the compatability level in SQL, and removed all data from the facttables in BPC version 7. The initial pull of the report seems to take almost 3 times as long in BPC v7 than in Outlooksoft version 4. Subsequent pulls, changing the date, take less than 15 seconds for the same report.
We are at a stand still trying to figure out why we are experiencing such lengthy retrieval times in the initial pull of a report in BPC version 7.
Additional Info: In our development environment of BPC v7, we currently have only 4 users set up to test. Our Outlooksoft version 4 has a total of 186 users. I don't know the maximium concurrent users we may have at one time.
Question: We are wondering if any other users are experiencing the same issue when they try and retrieve data from a report in BPC version 7? Please share your insight to this problem.

Hi Irene,
It is a big diference of design between 4.x and 7.x.
Into 4.x when you pull data into a report actually you are using PTS from client and you already have the connection and everything from client direct to OLAP server.
In 7.x all the request are going first to application server and the application server is the one taking the data from OLAP and after that data is sent to client.
So first time when you are doing refresh of report into application server it is necessary to create instances for all COM+ components necessary connection etc...and in that case the reports is taking longer.
When you are doing other refresh with the same reports or with other the time for refresh is much faster because already the COM+ instances were created and in this case the reports should be faster than v 4.x
So I suggest to try the follow test.
after login with BPC client just open first a small reports which you know is not taking too long.
After that open your big report. It should retrieve data faster than 4.x or almost the same time.
Also make sure you have all the settings done from Tunning Guide for BPC 5.x ( these settings can be applied also for 7.X)
to be sure that your 7.0 environment is working properly. This tunning guide can be found into bpx/sdn HTG section.
I hope this will help.
Regards
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