Hi guys,
I'm currently reading about the RDBMS PI interface as I'm evaluating it's use for our project.
I don't have the interface installed on our PI server so I can play with it, but I would like to know if anyone has seen any cases where the output results from PI (to be inserted in an RDB table) are filtered on the basis of a condition (any condition).
To make this clearer, here's an example:
If your RDB table "PI_DATA" is structured as per below:
- Column 1 - TAGNAME | varchar
- Column 2 - TIMESTAMP | float32
- Column 3 - VALUE | float32
and your SQL statement in file "PI_OUT.SQL" is: INSERT INTO PI_DATA (TAGNAME, TIMESTAMP, VALUE) VALUES (?,?,?);
and you PI output tag "PItoRDB_Tag1" is setup with the following attributes:
- SourceTag=tag1
- ExDesc=P1=AT.TAG P2=TS P3=VL
- IntrumentTag=PI_OUT.SQL
when the SQL statement is ran, it will output all the timestamps and values in the PI archives for tag1.
My question is, is there a way we can amend the SQL statement to say filter out any timestamps from a week ago, and only output timestamps from the past week, that will then be inserted in our table PI_DATA?
Eg. INSERT INTO PI_DATA (TAGNAME, TIMESTAMP, VALUE) VALUES (?,?,?) WHERE TIMESTAMP >= TODAY()-7; ?
I know the above WHERE clause in the SQL statement is invalid, thus my question 
Thanks a lot guys!
Cheers,
Mario