The TSQL DATEPART Function

You can use the TSQL DATEPART function to extract individual parts of the date from a date or time item.

For instance:

SELECT DATEPART(year, GETDATE());

Will return the following output:

The second parameter is the date/time element which can be any of these types: time, date, smalldatetime, datetime, datetime2, or datetimeoffset.

Lets take a look at the possible options for the first parameter.

 SELECT DATEPART(year, GETDATE()) AS [year],
		DATEPART(quarter, GETDATE()) AS [quarter],
		DATEPART(month, GETDATE()) AS [month],
		DATEPART(dayofyear, GETDATE()) AS [dayofyear],
		DATEPART(day, GETDATE()) AS [day],
		DATEPART(week, GETDATE()) AS [week],
		DATEPART(weekday, GETDATE()) AS [weekday],
		DATEPART(hour, GETDATE()) AS [hour],
		DATEPART(minute, GETDATE()) AS [minute],
		DATEPART(second, GETDATE()) AS [second],
		DATEPART(millisecond, GETDATE()) AS [millisecond],
		DATEPART(microsecond, GETDATE()) AS [microsecond],
		DATEPART(nanosecond, GETDATE()) AS [nanosecond],
		DATEPART(ISO_WEEK, GETDATE()) AS [ISO_WEEK];

See Also

• Rounding Dates and Times

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