Get the First Day of the Month in PostgreSQL

We can use the following method in PostgreSQL to return the first day of a given month.

This could be the first day of the current month, or the first day of the month based on a date that we specify.

Getting the first day of the month allows us to perform further calculations on the resulting date, like adding a certain number of days to the start of the month, etc.

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2 Ways to Return the Julian Day in SQLite

Here are two methods for returning the Julian Day in SQLite.

The Julian Day is the fractional number of days since noon in Greenwich on November 24, 4714 B.C. It’s the continuous count of days since the beginning of the Julian period, and is used primarily by astronomers, and in software for easily calculating elapsed days between two events.

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