If you’ve ever queried the sysjobhistory table in the msdb database, you’ll probably know that the datetime and duration columns are stored as integers.
In particular, when you query this table, the run_date, run_time, and duration columns are returned as integers, which can make it difficult to read.
Below is a query you can use to return this data in an easier to read format.
Continue readingMongoDB provides various options for extracting date parts from a date.
This article presents 3 ways to return the week portion from a date in MongoDB.
Continue readingWhen extracting the day from a date, the exact option we use will depend on how we want the day to be represented.
For example, do we want the day of the week, the day of the month, or the day of the year? Or perhaps we want it in ISO 8601 format? The return value will usually be different depending on which one we choose.
This article explores those options, and therefore presents 8 ways to return the day portion from a date in MongoDB.
Continue readingMongoDB provides a number of aggregation pipeline operators for working with dates, including operators that extract certain parts of dates, such as the year, month, day, etc.
There are also a couple of MongoDB methods that enable you to iterate through a cursor, and apply a JavaScript function. You can therefore use JavaScript to extract date values and date parts, etc from a field as required.
This article presents 5 ways to return the month portion from a date in MongoDB.
Continue readingMongoDB provides quite a few aggregation pipeline operators for working with dates. This includes operators that extract certain parts of dates, such as the year, month, day, etc.
There are also a couple of MongoDB methods that enable you to iterate through a cursor, and apply a JavaScript function. This therefore allows you to use JavaScript to extract date values and date parts, etc from a field.
This article presents 6 ways to return the year portion from a date in MongoDB.
Continue readingThis article contains a list of date operators, methods, and variables that you can use when working with dates in MongoDB.
Continue readingIn MongoDB, the $dateFromParts aggregation pipeline operator constructs and returns a Date object from the date’s constituent parts.
You provide each date part as a separate field.
You can specify your constituent date fields in ISO week date format if required.
Continue readingIn MongoDB, the $dateToParts aggregation pipeline operator returns the date parts of a given date.
More specifically, it returns a document that contains the constituent parts of a given BSON Date value as individual properties.
Continue readingIn MongoDB, the $dateToString aggregation pipeline operator converts a given date object to a string.
The $dateToString operator accepts either a Date, a Timestamp, or an ObjectId.
The following table outlines the format specifiers that can be used with the $dateToString aggregation pipeline operator in MongoDB.