make_date function
Applies to: Databricks SQL
Databricks Runtime
Creates a date from year, month, and day fields.
Syntax
make_date(year, month, day)
Arguments
year: An INTEGER expression evaluating to a value from 1 to 9999.month: An INTEGER expression evaluating to a value from 1 (January) to 12 (December).day: An INTEGER expression evaluating to a value from 1 to 31.
Returns
A DATE.
In Databricks SQL, if any of the arguments is out of bounds, the result is NULL.
In Databricks Runtime, if any of the arguments are out of bounds, Databricks raises DATETIME_FIELD_OUT_OF_BOUNDS unless spark.sql.ansi.enabled is false, in which case the function returns NULL.
Common error conditions
Examples
SQL
> SELECT make_date(2013, 7, 15);
2013-07-15
> SELECT make_date(2019, 13, 1);
NULL
> SELECT make_date(2019, 7, NULL);
NULL
> SELECT make_date(2019, 2, 30);
NULL
-- In DBR with ANSI mode, out-of-bounds fields raise an error.
> SELECT make_date(2024, 13, 1);
Error: DATETIME_FIELD_OUT_OF_BOUNDS