Thanks.  I am away now.  The other little wrinkle was trying to get the 
interval column in the query as interval is also a keyword.  using 
`interval` sorted that out.

On Wednesday, August 2, 2017 at 6:54:17 PM UTC+10, Andrew Milner wrote:
>
> specify the fields you are interested in instead of the * - I just found 
> the same problem and it works if you do for example
> select from_unixtime(dateTime), outTemp, inTemp from archive;
>
> with and without where 1;
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:23:11 UTC+3, David Schulz wrote:
>
>> Hi Andrew
>>
>> Thanks for your assistance.  The query returns a syntax error.
>>
>> 17:18:44 select from_unixtime(dateTime), * from archive where 1; Error 
>> Code: 1064. You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that 
>> corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near 
>> '* from archive where 1' at line 1 0.00039 sec
>>
>> I wasn't sure whether the ; after the 1 was required.  I tried it with 
>> and without but both returned errors.  I guess the take away is that rather 
>> than looking for a option to view the data, I'll need a query that 
>> translates the dateTime column in the query.  I'll do some more research 
>> and hopefully nail down the right syntax.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Tuesday, August 1, 2017 at 6:05:46 PM UTC+10, Andrew Milner wrote:
>>>
>>> try
>>> select from_unixtime(dateTime), * from archive where 1;      for MySQL 
>>> and 
>>> select datetime(dateTime, 'unixepoch', 'local'), * from archive where 1; 
>>>     for SQLite
>>>
>>> Should help you on the way
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, 1 August 2017 10:10:11 UTC+3, David Schulz wrote:
>>>
>>>> I seem to have weewx data spread across both a MySQL (MariaDB) database 
>>>> as well as the local SQLite database.
>>>>
>>>> Why do I think this?  I have yearly summaries going back to 2014, but 
>>>> there are big missing patches.  For example, I have data for May 2014, Jan 
>>>> 2015, Nov, Dec 2016 and all of this year.  Weewx is currently writing a 
>>>> SQLite database on the local machine.  I think I inadvertently switched to 
>>>> SQLite in an upgrade by failing to read properly the messages about 
>>>> applying the new config file, keeping the old etc... and reverted to the 
>>>> default local database.
>>>>
>>>> I previously had setup weewx to write to a MySQL database on another 
>>>> machine.  I believe the 'missing' data is in that database. So the plan is 
>>>> to merge the 2 data sources, and then reconfigure weewx to write to the 
>>>> MySQL server.  
>>>>
>>>> The problem I am having is working with the epoch unix integer date and 
>>>> time data.  I'd really like to be able to scan through the data and 
>>>> confirm 
>>>> my suspicions that the MySQL data fills the missing gaps in the SQLite 
>>>> data.  I've tried half a dozen different database tools in the hope one 
>>>> has 
>>>> an option to display the epoch date and time in a human readable format I 
>>>> can work with.  Anybody got any recommendations?
>>>>
>>>> Of course I've seen many, many query examples to convert a single row 
>>>> of data from epoch to a human readable format.  What I really need though 
>>>> is to be able to scan down the table data and see what I have in each 
>>>> location.  Or maybe I am thinking about the problem the wrong way?
>>>>
>>>> Maybe a better approach is to rename the existing weewx database in 
>>>> MySQL to avoid it being overwritten and then use wee_database --transfer 
>>>> to 
>>>> at least get everything in MySQL and then work on merging the legacy data?
>>>>
>>>> Any advice from wiser heads will be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>

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