Re: Need help writing SQL statement

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)

Jeff