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MySQL | DAYNAME method
schedule Aug 12, 2023
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MySQL's DAYNAME(~) method returns the name of the weekday from a given date or datetime.
Parameters
1. date | date/datetime
The date/datetime to retrieve the name of the weekday from.
Return value
The name of the weekday for the input date or datetime.
Examples
Consider the following table about some students:
student_id | fname | lname | day_enrolled | age | username |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sky | Towner | 2015-12-03 | 17 | stowner1 |
2 | Ben | Davis | 2016-04-20 | 19 | bdavis2 |
3 | Travis | Apple | 2018-08-14 | 18 | tapple3 |
4 | Arthur | David | 2016-04-01 | 16 | adavid4 |
5 | Benjamin | Town | 2014-01-01 | 17 | btown5 |
The above sample table can be created using the code here.
Basic usage
To return the name of the weekday that current students enrolled on:
SELECT fname, DAYNAME(day_enrolled)FROM students;
+----------+-----------------------+| fname | DAYNAME(day_enrolled) |+----------+-----------------------+| Sky | Thursday || Ben | Wednesday || Travis | Tuesday || Arthur | Friday || Benjamin | Wednesday |+----------+-----------------------+
To return name of weekday from a datetime:
SELECT DAYNAME('2020-04-12 06:05:55');
+--------------------------------+| DAYNAME('2020-04-12 06:05:55') |+--------------------------------+| Sunday |+--------------------------------+
We now know that 12 April 2020 was a Sunday.
Published by Arthur Yanagisawa
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Official MySQL Documentation
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_dayname
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