You could also use select first( outE().timestamp ) as created_time, first( inE().timestamp ) as closed_time
http://www.orientechnologies.com/docs/last/orientdb.wiki/SQL-Functions.html#first Tobie On Thursday, 12 February 2015 14:49:43 UTC, Tobie Morgan Hitchcock wrote: > > Hi Rubens, > > The thing about in(), out(), both(), inE(), outE(), inV(), outV() is that > it should return an array of records (edges/vertices) and not a single > value. > > To get the first edge from the query and ignore the other edges you could > use the following... > > select outE()[0].timestamp as created_time, inE()[0].timestamp as > closed_time > from Ticket > where id='1' > > That will take the first item in the array of returned edges, giving you > the timestamp field as a datetime. > > Maybe there is another better way that I don't know of, but that should > work I think. > > Tobie > > On Thursday, 12 February 2015 14:20:52 UTC, Rubens Ballabio wrote: >> >> Hi Tobie, >> >> the query i am doing is not retrieving datetime... that's the real issue. >> This is my query: >> >> select outE().timestamp as created_time, inE().timestamp as closed_time >> from Ticket >> where id='1' >> >> the output i see is something like this: >> ["2014-10-24 09:14:17"], ["2014-10-26 19:31:23"] >> >> basically i am getting the timestamps from two different edges connected >> to one Vertex. >> Maybe this query is not the best option. >> >> Can You advice me? >> Best >> Rubens >> >> >> On Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 2:35:54 PM UTC+1, Tobie Morgan >> Hitchcock wrote: >>> >>> Hi Rubens, >>> >>> There should be a couple of ways of making it work... >>> >>> 1. This uses eval to give you the time difference in milliseconds >>> SELECT eval('deleted_at - created_at') AS diff FROM Friends >>> >>> 2. This uses eval to give you the time difference in seconds >>> SELECT eval('(deleted_at - created_at) / 1000') AS diff FROM Friends >>> >>> 3. Create a function and use that to give you the difference in >>> milliseconds >>> INSERT INTO OFunction SET name='diff', parameters=["datetime1", >>> "datetime2"], language='groovy', code="return datetime1.getTime() >>> - datetime2.getTime();" >>> SELECT diff(deleted_at, created_at) AS diff from Friends >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, 12 February 2015 13:14:06 UTC, Rubens Ballabio wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi guys, >>>> >>>> do you know if there is any way to do a simple difference between two >>>> datetime parameters? >>>> i can't find the way to make it work. >>>> >>>> thank you in advance, >>>> Rubens >>>> >>> -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OrientDB" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to orient-database+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.