SQLite Order By Date1530019888000

Question

Every record in my SQLite database contains a field which contains a Date stored as a string in the format \'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss

Answer 1

You need to convert it to unix timestamp, and then compare them:

SELECT * FROM data ORDER BY strftime('%s', date_column) DESC

But this can be pretty slow, if there are lots of rows. Better approach would be to store unix timestamp by default, and create an index for that column.

Answer 2

This will work for both date and time

SELECT * 
FROM Table 
ORDER BY 
julianday(dateColumn) 
DESC Limit 1

Answer 3

In my case everything works fine without casting column to type 'date'. Just by specifying column name with double quotes like that:

SELECT * FROM 'Repair' ORDER BY "Date" DESC;

I think SQLite makes casting by itself or something like that, but when I tried to 'cast' Date column by myself it's not worked. And there was no error messages.