I have a sqlite3 database with one table called orig:
CREATE TABLE orig (sdate date, stime integer, orbnum integer);
What I want to do is select the first date/time for each orbnum. The only problem is that stime holds the time as a very awkward integer.
Assuming a six-digit number, the first two digits show the hour, the 3./4. show the minutes, and the last two digits show the seconds. So a value of 12345 is 1:23:45, whereas a value of 123456 is 12:34:56.
I figured I'd do this using two nested join/group statements, but somehow I cannot get it to work properly. Here's what I've got so far:
select s.orbnum, s.sdate, s.stime
from (
select t.orbnum, t.sdate, t.stime, min(t.sdate) as minsdate
from (
select orbnum, sdate, stime, min(stime) as minstime
from scia group by orbnum, sdate
) as t inner join orig as s on s.stime = t.minstime and s.sdate = t.sdate and s.orbnum = t.orbnum
) as d inner join scia as s on s.stime = d.stime and s.sdate = minsdate and s.orbnum = d.orbnum
where s.sdate >= '2002-08-01' limit 0,200;
This is the error I get:
Error: no such column: t.orbnum
I'm sure it's just some stupid mistake, but actually, I'm quite new to SQL ...
Any help is greatly appreciated :)
Edit:
After fixing the obvious typo, the query runs -- but returns an empty result set. However, the table holds ~10yrs of data, with about 12 orbnums per day and about 4-5 different times per orbnum. So I guess there's some mistake in the logic of the query ...