YEAR

Returns the year as a short integer value in the range of 0-9999.

Syntax

YEAR ( 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

The query returns all columns in rows in the orders table where the year in the order_date column is equal to ‘2003'. This example illustrates the YEAR function:

SELECT *
FROM orders
WHERE YEAR (order_date) = 2003;

Compatibility

ODBC compatible