In MariaDB, HOUR() is a built-in date and time function that returns the hour from a given time expression.
It accepts one argument, which is the time you want to extract the hour from.
For time-of-day values, it returns the hour as a number in the range 0 to 23. However, the range of TIME values can be much larger, and therefore, the returned value can be much higher than 23.
The return value is always positive, even if a negative time is provided.
Continue readingIn MariaDB, EXTRACT() is a built-in date and time function that returns the specified unit from a given date or datetime expression.
In MariaDB, DAYOFYEAR() is a built-in date and time function that returns the day of the year from a given date.
It accepts one argument, which is the date you want to extract the day of the year from.
It returns the day as a number in the range 1 to 366.
In MariaDB, WEEKDAY() is a built-in date and time function that returns the week day from a given date.
It accepts one argument, which is the date you want to extract the week day from.
It returns the day as a number. The index numbering starts at zero for Monday (i.e. 0 = Monday, 1 = Tuesday, etc). This is in contrast to DAYOFWEEK(), which adheres to the ODBC standard (1 = Sunday, 2 = Monday, etc).
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 readingIn 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 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.
In MariaDB, DATE_FORMAT() is a built-in date and time function that formats a date according to the given format string.
It requires two arguments; the date and the format string. It also accepts an optional third argument that allows you to specify the locale.
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