{"id":1498,"date":"2018-07-20T20:45:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T03:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sqltutorial.org\/?page_id=1498"},"modified":"2025-01-21T00:53:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T07:53:01","slug":"sql-date-functions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sqltutorial.org\/sql-date-functions\/","title":{"rendered":"SQL Date Functions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SQL date functions allow you to manipulate date and time effectively. You can use the date functions for various operations such as adding days to a date, calculating the difference between two dates, or extracting a part of a date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id='getting-the-current-date-time-functions'>Section 1. Getting the Current Date &amp; Time Functions <a href=\"#getting-the-current-date-time-functions\" class=\"anchor\" id=\"getting-the-current-date-time-functions\" title=\"Anchor for Section 1. Getting the Current Date &amp; Time Functions\">#<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This section shows you how to get the current date, time, and timestamp value using various date and time retrieval functions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqltutorial.org\/sql-date-functions\/sql-current-date\/\">CURRENT_DATE<\/a> &#8211; Returns a date value that represents the current date.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqltutorial.org\/sql-date-functions\/sql-current_time\/\">CURRENT_TIME<\/a> &#8211; Returns the time value that represents the current time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqltutorial.org\/sql-date-functions\/sql-current_timestamp\/\">CURRENT_TIMESTAMP<\/a> &#8211; Returns a timestamp that represents the current date and time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id='extracting-date-time-components'>Section 2. Extracting Date &amp; Time Components <a href=\"#extracting-date-time-components\" class=\"anchor\" id=\"extracting-date-time-components\" title=\"Anchor for Section 2. Extracting Date &amp; Time Components\">#<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This section shows you how to use the <code>EXTRACT<\/code> and <code>DATEPART<\/code> functions to extract a specific component such as year, month, day, hour, minute, and second from a date, time, or timestamp value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqltutorial.org\/sql-date-functions\/sql-extract\/\">EXTRACT<\/a> &#8211; Extracts a specific part of a date and time value including year, month, day, hour, minute, and second.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqltutorial.org\/sql-date-functions\/how-to-extract-year-from-date-in-sql\/\">Extract a year from a date<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqltutorial.org\/sql-date-functions\/how-to-extract-month-from-date-in-sql\/\">Extract a month from a date<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqltutorial.org\/sql-date-functions\/how-to-extract-day-from-date-in-sql\/\">Extract a day from a date<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqltutorial.org\/sql-date-functions\/sql-datepart\/\">DATEPART<\/a> &#8211; Extract a part of a date such as a year, month, and day from a given date.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id='arithmetic-functions'>Section 3. Arithmetic Functions <a href=\"#arithmetic-functions\" class=\"anchor\" id=\"arithmetic-functions\" title=\"Anchor for Section 3. Arithmetic Functions\">#<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This section introduces the functions that perform date arithmetic operations, including adding and subtracting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqltutorial.org\/sql-date-functions\/sql-dateadd\/\">DATEADD<\/a> &#8211; Adds an interval to a date\/time value.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqltutorial.org\/sql-date-functions\/sql-datediff\/\">DATEDIFF<\/a> &#8211; Returns the difference between two dates or times.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqltutorial.org\/sql-date-functions\/sql-date_trunc\/\">DATE_TRUNC<\/a> &#8211; Truncates a date\/time value to a specified precision such as year, month, day, hour, minute, and second.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id='date-and-time-conversion-functions'>Section 4. 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