Huh; interesting! I remember running into a lot of problems with the
revision table due to conversion.

On 3 January 2015 at 08:05, Christian Aistleitner <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 08:26:25PM -0500, Oliver Keyes wrote:
> > MediaWiki timestamps are stored as character strings, not numeric values,
> > because it allows for convenient alpha-sorting. You need to be using
> > timestamp BETWEEN '2014110100000' AND..., with quotes, rather than
> treating
> > them as numeric values.
>
> EventLogging stores timestamps as characters. True. But MySQL is good
> at automatic type conversion. So one can use numeric values just fine:
>
>   mysql:[email protected] [(none)]> SELECT timestamp FROM
> log.MobileWebClickTracking_5929948 WHERE timestamp BETWEEN 20140101000000
> and 20140101000000 LIMIT 1;
>   +----------------+
>   | timestamp      |
>   +----------------+
>   | 20140101000000 |
>   +----------------+
>   1 row in set (0.02 sec)
>
> So no real requirement to quote the values in the BETWEEN in this
> case. But quoting them makes a few things easier (like allowing to
> truncate values).
>
>
>
> The real issue with the original query in
>
> > On 29 December 2014 at 20:21, Jon Katz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > mysql [...] -e "Insert into staging.jkatz_clicktracking1 Select *
> > > from log.MobileWebClickTracking_5929948 WHERE ('timestamp' between
> > > 20141101000000 and 20141130000000) and wiki like 'enwiki';"
>
> is elsewhere in the WHERE part. The first condition is
>
>   'timestamp' between 20141101000000 and 20141130000000
>
> which (due to the quotes) checks if the literal string “timestamp”
> (and not the value of the column called timestamp) is between the
> given values.
>
> This BETWEEN condition on the literal string “timestamp” is never
> met. Hence, the SELECT gave the empty result set.
>
> Have fun,
> Christian
>
>
>
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