month function

Applies to: Databricks SQL Databricks Runtime

Returns the month component of the timestamp in expr. This function is a synonym for extract(MONTH FROM expr).

note

When extracting fields from a TIMESTAMP (TIMESTAMP_LTZ), the result is based on the session timezone.

Syntax

month(expr)

Arguments

• expr: An TIMESTAMP, TIMESTAMP_NTZ expression, or a STRING of a valid timestamp format.

Returns

An INTEGER.

Examples

SQL

> SELECT month('2016-07-30');
 7

Related functions

• dayofmonth function
• dayofweek function
• dayofyear function
• day function
• hour function
• minute function
• extract function