weekday
function
Applies to: Databricks SQL
Databricks Runtime
Returns the day of the week of expr
. This function is a synonym for extract(DAYOFWEEK_ISO FROM expr) - 1
.
note
When extracting fields from a TIMESTAMP
(TIMESTAMP_LTZ
), the result is based on the session timezone.
Syntax
weekday(expr)
Arguments
expr
: ADATE
,TIMESTAMP
, orTIMESTAMP_NTZ
expression.
Returns
An INTEGER
where 0 = Monday and 6 = Sunday.
Examples
SQL
> SELECT weekday(DATE'2009-07-30'), extract(DAYOFWEEK_ISO FROM DATE'2009-07-30');
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