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

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extract(period, date)

Arguments

period

The period that you want extracted from the date value. Valid periods are as follows:

  • YYYY: This returns the year portion of the date.
  • Q: This returns the quarter that the date belongs to (1–4).
  • MM: This returns the month portion of the date.
  • DD: This returns the day portion of the date.
  • WD: This returns the day of the week as an integer, with Sunday as 1.
  • HH: This returns the hour portion of the date.
  • MI: This returns the minute portion of the date.
  • SS: This returns the second portion of the date.
  • MS: This returns the millisecond portion of the date.

    NOTE   Extracting milliseconds is not supported in Presto databases below version 0.216.

date

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.

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extract('DD', orderDate)

The following are the given field values.

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orderDate
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01/01/14  
09/13/16        

For these field values, the following values are returned.

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01
13