I've got a column / class member of type DateTime in my class/SQLite table.
However, both this query:
SELECT * FROM PhotraxBaseData WHERE dateTimeTaken >= '11/11/2009' AND dateTimeTaken <= '11/11/2014'
-and this one:
SELECT * FROM PhotraxBaseData WHERE dateTimeTaken BETWEEN '11/11/2009' AND '11/11/2014'
...return no records. Both of these seem to be accepted syntax-wise (they run without error), but return "(0 items)" in LINQPad, even though there are multiple records between those dates.
It was suggested to me to use this SQL:
SELECT * FROM PhotraxBaseData WHERE dateTimeTaken BETWEEN CONVERT(DATETIME,'2009-11-11') AND CONVERT(DATETIME,'2014-11-11');
...but in testing that, LINQPad testily told me, "SQLite error no such column: DATETIME""
So what is the solution? What query syntax/methodology do I need to get the correct subset of data?
UPDATE
This works:
SELECT * FROM PhotraxBaseData WHERE dateTimeTaken >= ? AND dateTimeTaken <= ?
UPDATE 2
However, to convert the date as stored in DateTimeOffset to what SQLite needs to see, I wrote this utility function:
(I know this is very verbose, but knowing how way leads on to way, I'll probably leave it for another day, but...anyway):
// Dates were in format "4/25/2008 10:38:56 AM - 07:00" which SQLite could not grok
// It needs it like:"2008-04-25 10:38:56
internal static String SQLitifiedDate(DateTimeOffset aDate, bool BeginningOfDay)
{
const string BEGIN_DAY = "00:00:00";
const string END_DAY = "23:59:59";
String timeStr = END_DAY;
if (BeginningOfDay)
{
timeStr = BEGIN_DAY;
}
DateTimeOffset dto = aDate;
int Year = dto.Year;
int Month = dto.Month;
int Day = dto.Day;
String year = Year.ToString();
String month = Month.ToString();
if (month.Length == 1)
{
month = "0" + month;
}
String day = Day.ToString();
if (day.Length == 1)
{
day = "0" + day;
}
return String.Format("{0}-{1}-{2} {3}", year, month, day, timeStr);
}