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Why does a join of a search and subsearch on _time with matching values fail?

manus
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I tried to join a search and subsearch on _time with the join command, but this failed, even though the resulting time values matched. Why did this happen?

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manus
Communicator

A join on _time can fail even if the epoch values match. The failure is caused if one epoch _time value has a numeric format with decimal places and the other does not.

Example:
If on left side, you have _time=1405206000

and on right side, you have _time=1405206000.000

the join will fail, even if on screen you will see the same value on both sides: 2014-07-13 00:00:00

If you first timestamp is always precise to the second and no more, here is how you can make your join safer:

eval _time=round(_time,0) on the right side.

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ppablo
Retired

Just edited the entire post to fit the Q&A format 🙂 Thanks for posting @manus. I think others will find this content useful

Patrick

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manus
Communicator

Well yes, initially, I wanted to ask about my problem on joining on time... but then I figured it out, so I thought I would share the reply, even though I don't have a question anymore

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manus
Communicator

A join on _time can fail even if the epoch values match. The failure is caused if one epoch _time value has a numeric format with decimal places and the other does not.

Example:
If on left side, you have _time=1405206000

and on right side, you have _time=1405206000.000

the join will fail, even if on screen you will see the same value on both sides: 2014-07-13 00:00:00

If you first timestamp is always precise to the second and no more, here is how you can make your join safer:

eval _time=round(_time,0) on the right side.

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