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Extract
extract returns a specified portion of a date value. Requesting a
time-related portion of a date that doesn't contain time information returns 0.
Syntax
extract(period,date)
Arguments
- period
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The period that you want extracted from the date value. Valid periods are as follows:
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YYYY: This returns the year portion of the date.
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Q: This returns the quarter that the date belongs to (1–4).
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MM: This returns the month portion of the date.
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DD: This returns the day portion of the date.
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WD: This returns the day of the week as an integer, with Sunday as 1.
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HH: This returns the hour portion of the date.
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MI: This returns the minute portion of the date.
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SS: This returns the second portion of the date.
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MS: This returns the millisecond portion of the date.
Note
Extracting milliseconds is not supported in Presto databases below version 0.216.
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- date
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A date field or a call to another function that outputs a date.
Return type
Integer
Example
The following example extracts the day from a date value.
extract('DD', orderDate)
The following are the given field values.
orderDate ========= 01/01/14 09/13/16
For these field values, the following values are returned.
01 13
