Returns the quarter in the year specified by the argument as a short integer value in the range of 1-4.

Syntax

QUARTER ( date_expression )

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.

Example

In this example, which illustrates the QUARTER function, the query requests all rows in the orders table where the order_date is in the third quarter of the year:

SELECT *
    FROM orders
    WHERE QUARTER (order_date) = 3 ;

Compatibility

ODBC compatible