Database Management Systems
In MariaDB, DAYOFWEEK() is a built-in date and time function that returns the day of the week from a given date.
It accepts one argument, which is the date you want to extract the day of the week from.
It returns the day as a number. The index numbering adheres to the ODBC standard (1 = Sunday, 2 = Monday, etc). This is in contrast to WEEKDAY(), where 0 = Monday, 1 = Tuesday, etc.
In MariaDB, MONTHNAME() is a built-in date and time function that returns the name of the month name for a given date.
It accepts one argument, which is the date you want to extract the month name from.
Continue readingMariaDB provides several ways to perform arithmetic on dates. This includes adding or subtracting a month (or many months) from a given date.
Here are 6 ways to add a month to a date in MariaDB.
Bonus update: I’ve now added a 7th way to add a month to a date at the end of this article. So I guess it’s now 7 ways to add a month to a date in MariaDB 🙂
Continue readingIn SQL Server, the OPENQUERY rowset function enables you to execute a pass-through query on a linked server.
OPENQUERY is commonly referenced in the FROM clause of a query as if it were a table, but it can also be referenced as the target table of an INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statement.
This article presents an example of using OPENQUERY to do an UPDATE pass-through query.
In MariaDB, DAYNAME() is a built-in date and time function that returns the name of the weekday for a given date.
It accepts one argument, which is the date you want to extract the day name from.
Continue readingMariaDB has a lc_time_names system variable that controls the language used by the DAYNAME(), MONTHNAME() and DATE_FORMAT() date and time functions.
Here’s how to return the value of that variable.
Continue readingIn MariaDB, DAY() is a synonym for DAYOFMONTH(). It returns the day of the month from a given date.
In MariaDB, DAYOFMONTH() is a built-in date and time function that returns the day of the month from a given date.
It accepts one argument, which is the date you want to extract the day of the month from.
The result is in the range 1 to 31. However, if the date has a zero day part (for example '0000-00-00' or '2021-00-00'), the result is 0.
MariaDB supports a large list of locales that are used by functions such as DAYNAME(), MONTHNAME() and DATE_FORMAT().
While these locales are available to MariaDB, by default they’re not loaded into any of the system tables, so you can’t run a query to retrieve them.
However, MariaDB provides a plugin that does load these into a table. Once the plugin has been installed, you can query that table to return the locales available in MariaDB.
Continue readingBelow is a full list of date and time locales available in MariaDB.
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