SQL/MX 2.x Reference Manual (H06.04+)

SQL/MX Functions and Expressions
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MONTH Function
MONTH Function
The MONTH function converts a DATE or TIMESTAMP expression into an INTEGER
value in the range 1 through 12 that represents the corresponding month of the year.
MONTH is an SQL/MX extension.
datetime-expression
is an expression that evaluates to a datetime value of type DATE or TIMESTAMP.
See Datetime Value Expressions on page 6-39.
Examples of MONTH
•
Return an integer that represents the month of the year from the START_DATE
column in the PROJECT table:
SELECT start_date, ship_timestamp, MONTH(start_date)
FROM persnl.project
WHERE projcode = 1000;
Start/Date Time/Shipped (EXPR)
---------- -------------------------- ------
1996-04-10 1996-04-21 08:15:00.000000 4
MONTH (datetime-expression)