SQL – Contest to Get The Date – Win USD 50 Amazon Gift Cards and Cool Gift

If you are a regular reader of this blog – you will find no issue at all in resolving this puzzle. This contest is based on my experience with NuoDB.

If you are not familiar with NuoDB, here are few pointers for you.

In today’s contest you have to answer following questions:

Q 1: Precision of NOW()

What is the precision of the NuoDB’s NOW() function, which returns current date time?

Hint: Run following script on NuoDB Console Explorer section:

SELECT NOW() AS CurrentTime
FROM dual;

Here is the image. I have masked the area where the time precision is displayed.

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Q 2: Executing Date and Time Script

When I execute following script –

SELECT 'today' AS Today, 'tomorrow' AS Tomorrow, 'yesterday' AS Yesterday
FROM dual;

I will get the following result:

 SQL - Contest to Get The Date - Win USD 50 Amazon Gift Cards and Cool Gift quiz2

NOW – What will be the answer when we execute following script? and WHY?

SELECT CAST('today' AS DATE) AS Today, 
 CAST('tomorrow' AS DATE) AS Tomorrow, 
 CAST('yesterday'AS DATE) AS Yesterday
FROM dual;

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HINT: Install NuoDB (it takes 90 seconds).

Prizes:

  • 2 Amazon Gifts
  • 2 Limited Edition Hoodies (US resident only)

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Rules:

  • Please leave an answer in the comments section below.
  • You must answer both the questions together in a single comment.
  • US resident who wants to qualify to win NuoDB apparel please mention your country in the comment.
  • You can resubmit your answer multiple times, the latest entry will be considered valid.
  • Last day to participate in the puzzle is June 24, 2013.
  • All valid answer will be kept hidden till June 24, 2013.
  • The winner will be announced on June 25, 2013.
  • Two Winners will get USD 25 worth Amazon Gift Card. (Total Value = 25 x 2 = 50 USD)
  • The winner will be selected using a random algorithm from all the valid answers.
  • Anybody with a valid email address can take part in the contest.

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  • Ans 1) NuoDB provides timestamp information to the microsecond (6 decimal places) of precision.
    Query Result 2013-06-20 07:48:31.450723

    Ans 2) TODAY TOMORROW YESTERDAY —> 2013-06-20 2013-06-21 2013-06-19
    Reason:- Because NuoDB supports literals (‘now’, ‘today’, ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow’) that can be used as values for date.

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  • Arsen Barbakadze
    June 20, 2013 8:43 am

    Q1: Precision of NOW().
    NuoDB provides timestamp information to the microsecond (6 decimal places), so the precision will be 6.
    Q2: Executing Date and Time Script.
    NuoDB supports literals ‘today’, ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow’ as values for date and the correct syntax is: CAST(‘today’ AS DATE) AS Today, CAST(‘yesterday’ AS DATE) AS Yesterday and CAST(‘tomorrow’ AS DATE) AS Tomorrow.

    Reply
  • 1. microsecond precision
    2. the output will contain relevant dates because you’re casting as such and the sql engine is equipped to handle those string literals.

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  • Sanjay Monpara
    June 20, 2013 11:15 am

    Is there any nuodb version for windows 32 bit?

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  • Q1: Precision of NOW()
    What is the precision of the NuoDB’s NOW() function, which returns current date time?
    SELECT NOW() AS CurrentTime
    FROM dual;
    Answer: 2013-06-20 11:02:48.063512
    1) NuoDB provides Time Precision of NOW () as MICROSECOND (6 decimal places).
    2) NOW() is equivalent to CAST( ‘now’ AS Timestamp)

    Q2: Executing Date and Time Script
    What will be the answer when we execute following script? and WHY?
    SELECT CAST( ‘today’ AS DATE) AS Today,
    CAST(‘tomorrow’ AS DATE) AS Tomorrow,
    CAST(‘yesterday’ AS DATE) AS Yesterday
    FROM dual;

    Output: ( If today date is 20th June, 2013)
    TODAY TOMORROW YESTERDAY
    ———- ————- ————-
    2013-06-20 2013-06-21 2013-06-19

    Reason:
    1) NuoDB supports literals (‘now’, ‘today’, ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow’) that can be used as values for DATE.
    2) Those literals are considered as strings when used for varchar

    Reply
  • Avinash Reddy
    June 20, 2013 12:48 pm

    i done work on this it is very good it used a great intelligence.below i answered 2 of your question.

    (1)first question answer.

    today tomorrow yesterday
    2013-06-20 2013-06-21 2013-06-19

    2.why means

    in the above query you used a cast function so the functionality of cast is to convert one data type to another it works good in “sql server.”

    but “NUODB” supports literals (‘today’, ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow’) that can be used as values for “date” so we can do this by using those literals and we can also use one more literal ‘now’ i done some practicals on this it seems work

    In “NUODB” the use of cast function is it converts the date into required literals format

    here i will show you how to use ‘now’ literal.in NUODB

    select cast(‘now’ as date) from dual
    once we click on execute button in nuodb we will see the today’s date.

    i think my comment is some what good.

    i am from INDIA,
    mail id:-Munnangiavinashreddy@gmail.com

    Thanks in advance,
    Avinash Reddy Munnnangi.

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  • Michael Buescher
    June 20, 2013 2:09 pm

    Q1: The NOW() function returns values up to microseconds (6 decimal places).

    Q2: The result is:

    TODAY TOMORROW YESTERDAY
    2013-06-20 2013-06-21 2013-06-19

    The given strings in the CAST() function are used as literals for the DATE type.

    (Iowa, USA)

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  • Sanjay Monpara
    June 20, 2013 2:58 pm

    Q 1: Precision of NOW()
    A 1:
    NOW() : no precision 2013-06-20 13:11:11
    but
    cast(‘now’ as timestamp) : 2013-06-20 13:11:11.074721

    Q 2: Executing Date and Time Script
    A 2:
    Today Tomorrow Yesterday
    ———- ———- ———-
    2013-06-20 2013-06-21 2013-06-19

    Because, NuoDB supports literals (‘now’, ‘today’, ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow’) that can be used as values for date.

    Reply
  • Prashant Goel
    June 20, 2013 3:49 pm

    Answer: 2013-06-20, 2013-06-21, 2013-06-19 Why: because cast define today as todays’s Date, tomorrow as tomorrow’s date and yesterday’s as yesterday’s date in NueDB

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  • SELECT NOW() AS CurrentTime
    FROM dual; — the precision is 1

    SELECT CAST(‘today’ AS DATE) AS Today, — > This gives the current day date
    CAST(‘tomorrow’ AS DATE) AS Tomorrow, —-> tomm date
    CAST(‘yesterday’AS DATE) AS Yesterday ——> yesterday date
    FROM dual;

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  • USA
    #1 – It is in fractional seconds precision (milla seconds)

    #2 – Today: 2013-06-20
    Tomorrow: 2013-06-21
    Yesterday: 2013-06-019

    CAST() as DATE. Neat how it took the string of Today and new it was a NOW() and how the others the same translation from string to DATE ADD in a sense….

    Reply
  • Q1. MICROSECONDS

    Q2.
    current date, tomorrow date,yesterday date.
    today,tomorrow and yesterday are date time function CAST

    US,

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  • avinash reddy
    June 21, 2013 9:57 pm

    thanks to pinal sir i am eagerly waiting for the result

    Reply
  • Shiv Kumar Singh
    June 22, 2013 5:01 pm

    ans 1. last 7 digits will be mili & nano seconds.
    ans 2. dual is used when we dont now the actual table name. so it does not have any data inside. and when we execute data is not there and it will display like this. as ans 2.

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  • 1 Microseconds
    2 Today,Tomorrow,Yesterday which can be used as values.

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  • mili or nanaseconds

    Today : 23/6/2013
    Tomorrow : 24/6/2013
    Yesterday : 22/6/2010

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  • 1) Select NOW() AS CurrentTimeFROM Dual;
    Answer: 2013-06-24 16:30:20.342516
    Precision of the NuoDB’s NOW() function is 6 decimal places (MICROSECOND)
    2) SELECT CAST(‘today’ AS DATE) AS Today, CAST(‘tomorrow’ AS DATE) AS Tomorrow, CAST(‘yesterday’ AS DATE) AS Yesterday
    FROM dual;
    Answer:
    TODAY TOMORROW YESTERDAY
    ———- ————- ————-
    2013-06-24 2013-06-25 2013-06-23
    Reason: ‘today’, ‘tomorrow’, ‘yesterday’, ‘now’ are the literals that can be used as values for DATE…Here we casted those literals to DATE type.
    Query returns respective Today, Tomorrow, and Yesterday’s dates…

    Reply
  • MICROSECONDS

    Today’s date
    tommorrow’s date
    yesterday’s date

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  • It will display exact current time in Microseconds

    Today,Tomorrow,Yesterday

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  • NuoDB is a very nice product. I downloaded it immediately after reading this artile.
    Here is my answer :
    Precision of NOW() will display current date
    When we we execute following script we get result Today Tomorrow Yesterday

    Reply

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