EXTRACT
Descriptionβ
The extract
function is used to extract a specified part of a date or time value, such as the year, month, day, hour, minute, second, etc. This function is commonly used to extract specific time components from a datetime field for calculation, comparison, or display.
Syntaxβ
EXTRACT(<unit> FROM <datetime>)
Parametersβ
Parameter | Description |
---|---|
unit | The unit to extract from the DATETIME. Possible values are year, month, day, hour, minute, second, microsecond, dayofyear(doy), dayofweek(dow) |
datetime | The argument is a valid date expression |
Return Valueβ
The return value is the extracted part of the date or time (such as an integer), depending on the unit being extracted.
Examplesβ
select extract(year from '2022-09-22 17:01:30') as year,
extract(month from '2022-09-22 17:01:30') as month,
extract(day from '2022-09-22 17:01:30') as day,
extract(hour from '2022-09-22 17:01:30') as hour,
extract(minute from '2022-09-22 17:01:30') as minute,
extract(second from '2022-09-22 17:01:30') as second,
extract(microsecond from cast('2022-09-22 17:01:30.000123' as datetimev2(6))) as microsecond,
extract(dayofyear FROM '2022-09-22 17:01:30') as dayofyear,
extract(doy FROM '2022-09-22 17:01:30') as dayofyear_alias,
extract(dayofweek FROM '2022-09-22 17:01:30') as dayofweek,
extract(dow FROM '2022-09-22 17:01:30') as dayofweek_alias;
+------+-------+------+------+--------+--------+-------------+-----------+-----------------+-----------+-----------------+
| year | month | day | hour | minute | second | microsecond | dayofyear | dayofyear_alias | dayofweek | dayofweek_alias |
+------+-------+------+------+--------+--------+-------------+-----------+-----------------+-----------+-----------------+
| 2022 | 9 | 22 | 17 | 1 | 30 | 123 | 265 | 265 | 5 | 5 |
+------+-------+------+------+--------+--------+-------------+-----------+-----------------+-----------+-----------------+