Converting timestamp to epoch in snowflake

Question

I have timestamp in following format: "2022-03-08 17:11:59.901" , I want to convert them to UNIX/Epoch format up to milliseconds, somehow it only delivers till seconds part. Is there anyway to do it?

Answer 1

If you have a string timestamp and you want to convert to EPOCH:

SELECT to_timestamp('2022-03-08 17:11:59.901') as ts,
       date_part(EPOCH_MICROSECOND ,ts)