Date Functions – SQL Server vs MySQL

Continuing my series on how same things can be done differently in SQL Server and MySQL, in this post, we will see some Date Functions in SQL Server and MySQL. I have put them in a table format so that it becomes easier for you to follow:

 

SNo	Purpose	SQL Server	MySQL
1	Find out current date and time	Getdate()	now()
2	Find out day name of current date	datename(weekday ,getdate())	Dayname(now())
3	Find out day of month	datename(day,getdate())	dayofmonth(now())
4	Find out day of week	datepart(weekday,getdate())	dayofweek(now())
5	Find out day of year	datepart(weekday,getdate())	dayofyear(now())
6	Find out year value	year(getdate())	year(now())
7	Find out month value	month(getdate())	month(now())
8	Find out day value	day(getdate())	day(now())
9	Find out last day of month	eomonth(getdate())	last_day(now())
10	Find out month name	datename(month,getdate())	monthname(now())
11	Find out Time value from seconds	cast(dateadd(second,seconds_value,0) as time)	sec_to_time(seconds_value)
12	Subtract days from date	dateadd(day,-day_value,getdate())	date_sub(now(), interval day_value day)
13	Add days to date	dateadd(day,day_value,getdate())	adddate(now(), interval day_value day)
13	Get UTCDATE	GETUTCDATE ()	UTC_TIMESTAMP()
14	Format a date (dd-mm-yyyy)	format(getdate(),'d-MM-yyyy')	DATE_FORMAT(now(), '%d-%c-%Y');

About The Author

Madhivanan,an MSc computer Science graduate from Chennai-India, works as a works as a Lead Subject Matter Expert at a company that simplifies BIG data. He started his career as a developer working with Visual Basic 6.0, SQL Server 2000 and Crystal Report 8. As years went by, he started working more on writing queries in SQL Server. He now has good level of knowledge in SQLServer, Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL as well. He is also one of the leading posters at www.sqlteam.com and a moderator at www.sql-server-performance.com. His T-sql blog is at http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/madhivanan