Categories: Date/Time

YEAR

Extracts the year for a given date or timestamp.

Syntax

EXTRACT(YEAR FROM date_timestamp_expression string) → bigint

• date_timestamp_expression: A DATE or TIMESTAMP expression.

Examples

YEAR example using a timestamp

SELECT EXTRACT(YEAR FROM TIMESTAMP '2019-08-12 01:00:00.123456')
-- 2019

YEAR example using a date

SELECT EXTRACT(YEAR FROM DATE '2019-08-12')
-- 2019

YEAR example using the CAST function

SELECT EXTRACT(YEAR FROM CAST('2019-08-12 01:00:00' AS TIMESTAMP))
-- 2019

Usage Notes

This function uses the EXTRACT function. When using the CAST function, timestamps containing milliseconds are not allowed.