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DAYOFWEEK
Notes • The date_expression argument must be of type DATE.
DAYOFWEEK
Syntax
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SELECT *
FROM orders
WHERE DAYOFMONTH (order_date) = 14 ;
• If date_expression is supplied as a date literal, it can be any of the valid date_literal
formats where the day specification (DD) precedes the month specification (MM).
• The result is of type SHORT.
• If the argument expression evaluates to NULL, the result is NULL.
Compatibility
ODBC compatible
Returns the day of the week in the argument as a short integer value in the range of 1–7.
The argument date_expression can be the name of a column, the result of another scalar
function, or a date or timestamp literal.
DAYOFWEEK ( date_expression )
Example The following example shows how to use the DAYOFWEEK function:
SELECT *
FROM orders
WHERE DAYOFWEEK (order_date) = 2 ;
Notes • The argument to the function must be of type DATE.
• If date_expression is supplied as a date literal, it can be any of the valid date_literal
formats where the day specification (DD) precedes the month specification (MM).
• The result is of type SHORT.
• If the argument expression evaluates to NULL, the result is NULL.
Compatibility
ODBC compatible