Useful SQL Functions related to date

Abe — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 06:03:00 +0000

Here are few SQL Functions which would be useful when we do some tasks dealing with dates

Dateadd: Returns a new datetime value based on adding an interval to the specified date.


Syntax: DATEADD ( datepart, number, date ) 
Datediff: Returns the number of date and time boundaries crossed between two specified dates. 
Syntax: DATEDIFF ( datepart, startdate, enddate ) 
Datename: Returns a character string representing the specified datepart of the specified date.
Syntax: DATENAME ( datepart, date )
Datepart: Returns an integer representing the specified datepart of the specified date.
Syntax: DATEPART ( datepart, date ) 
Day: Returns an integer representing the day datepart of the specified date.
Syntax: DAY ( date ) 
Getdate: Returns the current system date and time in the Microsoft® SQL Server standard internal format for datetime values.
Syntax: GETDATE ( )
Month: Returns an integer that represents the month part of a specified date.
Syntax: MONTH ( date ) 
Year: Returns an integer that represents the year part of a specified date.

Syntax: YEAR ( date )

Hope this would be helpful.

Born Again! » reference

Useful SQL Functions related to date