weekday function

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Returns the day of the week of expr. This function is a synonym for extract(DAYOFWEEK_ISO FROM expr) - 1.

Syntax 

weekday(expr)

Arguments

  • expr: A DATE or TIMESTAMP expression.

Returns

An INTEGER where 0 = Monday and 6 = Sunday.

Examples 

> SELECT weekday(DATE'2009-07-30'), extract(DAYOFWEEK_ISO FROM DATE'2009-07-30');
  3    4