Re: Need help writing SQL statement

thank you all for your help.

this solved it:
SELECT count(*) FROM table where date_part('hour', time_stamp) in (10, 11);

Scott Marlowe wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 13:20, Jeffrey Melloy wrote:
>
>
>>D A GERM wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>I have been trying to write an sql statement that returns the same
>>>hours in a time stamp no matter what the date.
>>>I can to pull same hours on the the same days but have not been able
>>>to figure out how to pull all the same hours no matter what the date.
>>>
>>>Here is the one sql statement I have been using:
>>>SELECT COUNT(time_stamp) FROM table WHERE time_stamp BETWEEN
>>>20050629100000 and 20050631100000;
>>>
>>>Any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>>Thanks in advanced for any help
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>You can do something like
>>SELECT count(*)
>>FROM table
>>where date_part('hour', timestamp) in (10, 11)
>>
>>This query is going to require a seq scan, so if you're running it
>>frequently you can make an index on date_part('hour', timestamp)
>>
>>
>
>
>Note that an index created on date_part('hour',timestamp) should be
>usable here as long as it's selectable enough.
>
>

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