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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