missing operand before '<' operator in datatable select - asp.net

In the data table there is column that is composite date that has the value of the date with some conditions i want to filter the data table.
The expression that i am making is giving me error .
Expression
scaleID=8207 and CompositeDate >= '5/1/2009 6:01:23 PM' And CompositeDate =< '5/31/2009 6:01:23 PM'
what is that i am missing here if it cannot be done in this way can we use LINQ for this if yes can any one provide me with the syntax.

You're using =< when I suspect you mean <=.
The docs for the expression syntax include <=, but I can't see anything to suggest that =< is valid.
Personally I would try to avoid magic strings as far as possible and use LINQ instead (even within datatables) but that's a different matter.

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Find the documents which have element in proper "dateTime" format

I am trying the following query in marklogic-9:
cts:element-value-match(xs:QName("cd:modificationDate"), "[Y0001]-[M01]-[D01]T[H01]:[m01]:[s01].000Z", ("type=dateTime","timezone=TZ"))
to achieve this, but this gives me the following error:
[1.0-ml] XDMP-ARG: cts:element-value-match(xs:QName("cd:modificationDate"), "[Y0001]-[M01]-[D01]T[H01]:[m01]:[s01].000Z", ("type=dateTime", "timezone=TZ")) -- arg2 is invalid
What i want to do is to find out all those documents which conforms to this specific pattern of dateTime. We have a date-range index on this element - modificationDate.
How best can we do this using marklogic and xquery api.
cts:element-value-match is really only useful on string range indexes and even there it only takes simple wildcards (* and ?), not general regular expressions or date formats.
If your range index is a dateTime range index, then every value must conform to the proper xs:dateTime format, so this query would tell you nothing.
This will give you a list of all the URIs where you have a valid dateTime in that element:
cts:uris("", (),
cts:element-range-query(xs:QName("modificationDate"), ">", xs:dateTime("0001-01-01T00:00:00"))
)

Datatype Mismatch in THEN/ELSE expression

I am trying to run below query snippet in a Teradata query
WHERE COALESCE(CAST (EXPC_DLVR_TS as date),'2020-12-31') >'2016-11-18'
I tried another but similar one
WHERE CAST(COALESCE(EXPC_DLVR_TS,'12/31/2020 17:00:00.000000-08:00') as date) >'2016-11-18'
For both the queries I am getting below error -
Datatype Mismatch in THEN/ELSE expression
You need to tell Teradata that '2020-12-31' is a date, otherwise it thinks it's a string. Just preface it by DATE. It's a good habit to always do that for dates.
where COALESCE(CAST (EXPC_DLVR_TS as date),date '2020-12-31') > date '2016-11-18'

Syntax error (missing operator) in query expression 'EXTRACT (YEAR FROM Starting_Date)'

SELECT EXTRACT (YEAR FROM Starting_Date) as Orderyear,
FROM PGME
WHERE ID =1
I tried to select the year from the Starting_Date which the format is "15/01/1968". But it keep saying the Syntax error. Any recommended? Thank you for advance.
extract is a MySQL function that isn't part of the ANSI SQL standard, and from the comments it seems you're trying to use it with MS-Access. Instead, you could consider using the datepart function which is more-or-less the MS-Access equivalent. Additionally, as lad2025 noted in his comment, you have a redundant comma after Orderyear:
SELECT DATEPART("yyyy", Starting_Date) AS orderyear
FROM pgme
WHERE id = 1

Marklogic collate sequence in XQuery

Is there a way to modify the elements a sequence so only collated versions of the items are returned?
let $currencies := ('dollar', 'Dollar', 'dollar ')
return fn:collated-only($currencies, "http://marklogic.com/collation/en/S1/T00BB/AS")
=> ('dollar', 'dollar', 'dollar')
The values that are stored in the range index (that feeds the facets) are literally the first value that was encountered that compared equal to the others. (Because, the collation says you don't care...)
You can get a long way by calling
fn:replace(fn:lower-case(xdmp:diacritic-less(fn:normalize-unicode($str,"NFKC"))),"\p{P}","")
This won't be exactly the same in that it overfolds some things and underfolds others, but it may be good for your purposes.
Is this the expected output? There is no fn:collated-only function, so I'm assuming you're asking how to write such a function or whether there is such a function.
The thing is, there isn't a mapping from one string to another in collation comparisons, there is only a comparison algorithm (the Unicode Collation Algorithm) so there really is no canonical kind of string to return to you, and therefore no API to do so.
Stepping back, what is the problem you are actually trying to solve? By the rules of that collation, "dollar" and "Dollar" are equivalent, and by using it you declare you don't care which form you use, so you could use either one.
If these values are in XML elements and you have a range index using http://marklogic.com/collation/en/S1/T00BB/AS, you can do something like this:
let $ref := cts:element-reference(xs:QName("currency"), "collation=http://marklogic.com/collation/en/S1/T00BB/AS")
for $curr in cts:values($ref, (), "frequency-order")
return $curr || ": " || cts:frequency($curr)
This will produce results like:
"dollar: 15",
"euro: 12"
... and so on. The collation will disregard the differences among your sample inputs. These results could be formatted however you want. Is that what you're looking to do?

How can I prevent SQLite from treating a string as a number?

I would like to query an SQLite table that contains directory paths to find all the paths under some hierarchy. Here's an example of the contents of the column:
/alpha/papa/
/alpha/papa/tango/
/alpha/quebec/
/bravo/papa/
/bravo/papa/uniform/
/charlie/quebec/tango/
If I search for everything under /bravo/papa/, I would like to get:
/bravo/papa/
/bravo/papa/uniform/
I am currently trying to do this like so (see below for the long story of why I can't use more simple methods):
SELECT * FROM Files WHERE Path >= '/bravo/papa/' AND Path < '/bravo/papa0';
This works. It looks a bit weird, but it works for this example. '0' is the unicode code point 1 greater than '/'. When ordered lexicographically, all the paths starting with '/bravo/papa/' compare greater than it and less than 'bravo/papa0'. However, in my tests, I find that this breaks down when we try this:
SELECT * FROM Files WHERE Path >= '/' AND Path < '0';
This returns no results, but it should return every row. As far as I can tell, the problem is that SQLite is treating '0' as a number, not a string. If I use '0Z' instead of '0', for example, I do get results, but I introduce a risk of getting false positives. (For example, if there actually was an entry '0'.)
The simple version of my question is: is there some way to get SQLite to treat '0' in such a query as the length-1 string containing the unicode character '0' (which should sort strings such as '!', '*' and '/', but before '1', '=' and 'A') instead of the integer 0 (which SQLite sorts before all strings)?
I think in this case I can actually get away with special-casing a search for everything under '/', since all my entries will always start with '/', but I'd really like to know how to avoid this sort of thing in general, as it's unpleasantly surprising in all the same ways as Javascript's "==" operator.
First approach
A more natural approach would be to use the LIKE or GLOB operator. For example:
SELECT * FROM Files WHERE Path LIKE #prefix || '%';
But I want to support all valid path characters, so I would need to use ESCAPE for the '_' and '%' symbols. Apparently this prevents SQLite from using an index on Path. (See http://www.sqlite.org/optoverview.html#like_opt ) I really want to be able to benefit from an index here, and it sounds like that's impossible using either LIKE or GLOB unless I can guarantee that none of their special characters will occur in the directory name, and POSIX allows anything other than NUL and '/', even GLOB's '*' and '?' characters.
I'm providing this for context. I'm interested in other approaches to solve the underlying problem, but I'd prefer to accept an answer that directly addresses the ambiguity of strings-that-look-like-numbers in SQLite.
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How do I prevent sqlite from evaluating a string as a math expression?
In that question, the values weren't quoted. I get these results even when the values are quoted or passed in as parameters.
EDIT - See my answer below. The column was created with the invalid type "STRING", which SQLite treated as NUMERIC.
* Groan *. The column had NUMERIC affinity because it had accidentally been specified as "STRING" instead of "TEXT". Since SQLite didn't recognize the type name, it made it NUMERIC, and because SQLite doesn't enforce column types, everything else worked as expected, except that any time a number-like string is inserted into that column it is converted into a numeric type.

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