I want to execute a Job in CRON for every 14 days from a specific date and timezone.
As an e.g. from JUNE 24TH every 14 days in CST time zone.
Run job every fortnight
The easy way
The easiest way to do this is simply to create the task to run every 14 days from when you want it to first run like:
CREATE TASK mytask_fortnightly
WAREHOUSE = general
SCHEDULE = '20160 MINUTE'
AS
SELECT 'Hello world'
How it works
As there are 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day and 14 days in a fortnight, ergo that's 20,160 minutes.
Caveat
The above solution does not run the task every fortnight from a given date/time, but rather every fortnight from when the task is created.
Even though this is the simplest method, it does require you to be nominally present to create the task at the exact desired next scheduled time.
As a workaround however, you can create a one-shot task to do that for you the very first time at the exact correct date/time. This means you don't have to remember to be awake / alert / present to do it manually yourself, and you can clean up the creation task afterwards.
The harder way.
Other solutions will require you to create a task which gets run every Thursday (since 2021-06-24 is/was a Thursday, each subsequent Thursday will either be the off-week, or the fortnight week)
e.g. SCHEDULE = 'USING CRON 0 0 * * THU'
Then you will add specific logic to it to determine which one the correct fortnight is.
Using this method will also incur execution cost for the off-week as well to determine if it's the correct week.
Javascript SP
In javascript you can determine if it's the correct week or not by subtracting the start date from the current date and if it's not a mutiple of 14 days, use this as a conditional to short circuit the SP.
const deltaMs = (new Date) - (new Date('2021-06-24'));
const deltaDays = ~~(deltaMs / 86400000);
const run = deltaDays % 14 === 0;
if (!run) return;
// ... continue to do what you want.
SQL
You can also check if it's a fortnight using the following SQL condition in a WHERE clause, or IFF / CASE functions.
DATEDIFF('day', '2021-06-24', CURRENT_DATE) % 14 = 0
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I have a script that I have had to ran manually a few times but now it looks like it will need to be ran twice a month. The problem is the dates are dynamic and the job needs to run on the 1st and 16th of every month but it will need to pull all data from the last 16 days. So for example, if we run it on the first of this month (Jan) the dates would be >= 2016-12,16 and <= 2016-12-31
I have been looking at the date function sql server has but I am not really sure if it will work for what I need.
I would look at DateAdd, and add a negative number of dates to the value to go back 16 days.
DATEADD(DAY, -16, GETDATE()).
I would personally just run a script with cron and set it up to run on the 1st and the 16th of every month.
I am trying to make scheduled job using apex code that will run everyday at same time ex. 00:00. According to documentations I need to use slash '/' for increment. So, the string will look something like this:
0 0 * /1 * ?
But, when I execute this string, the scheduled job is executed every hour. Does anyone have this kind of issue before?
You can use the following expression to run the scheduled job daily.
0 0 1 * * ?
This will run the scheduled job everyday at 1:00AM.
Here is how you read the above expression
0 = Second
0 = Minute
1 = Hour
* = All days
* = All months
? = No specific value
And, I have omitted the optional year part from expression.
Also, you are confusing the / which serves completely different purpose.
Docs for: /
Specifies increments. The number before the slash specifies when the intervals will begin, and the number after the slash is the interval amount. For example, if you specify 1/5 for Day_of_month, the Apex class runs every fifth day of the month, starting on the first of the month.
I want to create a database to store process cycle time data. For example:
Say a particular process for a certain product, say welding, theoretically takes about 10 seconds to do (the process cycle time). Due to various issues, the machine's actual cycle time would vary throughout the day. I would like to store the machine's actual cycle time throughout the day and analyze it over time (days, weeks, months). How would i go about designing the database for this?
I considered using a time series database, but i figured it isn't suitable - cycle time data has a start time and an end time - basically i'm measuring time performance over time - if this even makes sense. At the same time, I was also worried that using relational database to store and then display/analyze time related data is inefficient.
Any thoughts on a good database structure would be greatly appreciated. Let me know if any more info is needed and i will gladly edit this question
You are tracking the occurrence of an event. The event (weld) starts at some time and ends at some time. It might be tempting to model the event entity like so:
StationID StartTime StopTime
with each welding station having a unique identifier. Some sample data might look like this:
17 08:00:00 09:00:00
17 09:00:00 10:00:00
For simplicity, I've set the times to large values (1 hour each) and removed the date values. This tells you that welding station #17 started a weld at 8am and finished at 9am, at which time the second weld started which finished at 10am.
This seems simple enough. Notice, however, that the StopTime of the first entry matches the StartTime of the second entry. Of course it does, the end of one weld signals the start of the next weld. That's how the system was designed.
But this sets up what I call the Row Spanning Dependency antipattern: where the value of one field of a row must be synchronized with the value of another field in a different row.
This can create any number of problems. For example, what if the StartTime of the second entry showed '09:15:00'? Now we have a 15 minute gap between the end of the first weld and the start of the next. The system does not allow for gaps -- the end of each weld also starts the next weld. How should be interpret this gap. Is the StopTime of the first row wrong. Is the StartTime of the second row wrong? Are both wrong? Or was there another row between them that was somehow deleted? There is no way to tell which is the correct interpretation.
What if the StartTime of the second entry showed '08:45'? This is an overlap where the start of the second cycle supposedly started before the first cycle ended. Again, we can't know which row contains the erroneous data.
A row spanning dependency allows for gaps and overlaps, neither of which is allowed in the data. There would need to be a large amount of database and application code required to prevent such a situation from ever occurring, and when it does (as assuredly it will) there is no way to determine which data is correct and which is wrong -- not from within the database, that is.
An easy solution is to do away with the StopTime field altogether:
StationID StartTime
17 08:00:00
17 09:00:00
Each entry signals the start of a weld. The end of the weld is indicated by the start of the next weld. This simplifies the data model, makes it impossible to have a gap or overlap, and more precisely matches the system we are modeling.
But we need the data from two rows to determine the length of a weld.
select w1.StartTime, w2.StartTime as StopTime
from Welds w1
join Welds w2
on w2.StationID = w1.StationID
and w2.StartTime =(
select Max( StartTime )
from Welds
where StationID = w2.StationID
and StartTime < w2.StartTime );
This may seem like a more complicated query that if the start and stop times were in the same row -- and, well, it is -- but think of all that checking code that no longer has to be written, and executed at every DML operation. And since the combination of StationID and StartTime would be the obvious PK, the query would use only indexed data.
There is one addition to suggest. What about the first weld of the day or after a break (like lunch) and the last weld of the day or before a break? We must make an effort not to include the break time as a cycle time. We could include the intelligence to detect such situation in the query, but that would increase the complexity even more.
Another way would be to include a status value in the record.
StationID StartTime Status
17 08:00:00 C
17 09:00:00 C
17 10:00:00 C
17 11:00:00 C
17 12:00:00 B
17 13:00:00 C
17 14:00:00 C
17 15:00:00 C
17 16:00:00 C
17 17:00:00 B
So the first few entries represent the start of a cycle, whereas the entry for noon and 5pm represents the start of a break. Now we just need to append the line
where w1.Status = 'C'
to the end of the query above. Thus the 'B' entries supply the end times of the previous cycle but do not start another cycle.
I want to load one table for data for say 1 month starting from 1 April to 30 April in successive manner.
i.e after loading data for 1 April, date should automatically increment to 2, load the data and increment and so on, till its 30 April.
Also, data of 2 April depends on 1 April data. So i cannot give a date range to load randomly.
How can I do it?
It would be preferable to get the loads done in single session run, instead of running the session for several times.
Sort the source data by date and use a Transaction Control transformation to enforce a commit every time the date changes.
How I can set GAE cron job to run at specific date at specific time
Like 10th April at 12:20 minute.Please provide syntax for this use case.
How to set IST time zone.
From the cron format documentation:
If you want more specific timing, you can specify the schedule as:
("every"|ordinal) (days) ["of" (monthspec)] (time)
Where:
ordinal specifies a comma separated list of "1st", "first" and so
forth (both forms are ok) days specifies a comma separated list of
days of the week (for example, "mon", "tuesday", with both short and
long forms being accepted); "every day" is equivalent to "every
mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat,sun" monthspec specifies a comma separated
list of month names (for example, "jan", "march", "sep"). If omitted,
implies every month. You can also say "month" to mean every month, as
in "1,8,15,22 of month 09:00". time specifies the time of day, as
HH:MM in 24 hour time.
So you'd want something like:
schedule: 10 of april 12:20
timezone: Asia/Kolkata
Possible solutions:
1) Create a cronjob that runs once a minute. When the current time equals your desired time, run your code.
2) If the specific time is in the next 30 days, use a Task with the eta property set: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/taskqueue/tasks#Task
3) Use some external service to setup a webhook that gets called at the proper time, make your code run when the webhook is called.