SQL/MX 2.x Reference Manual (G06.24+, H06.03+)
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 6-40.
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)










