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MySQL | QUARTER method
schedule Aug 11, 2023
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MySQL's QUARTER(~) method returns the quarter of the year for a given date or datetime.
Parameters
1. date | date/datetime
The date/datetime to retrieve the quarter from.
Return value
The quarter of the year 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 quarter that current students enrolled:
SELECT fname, QUARTER(day_enrolled)FROM students;
+----------+-----------------------+| fname | QUARTER(day_enrolled) |+----------+-----------------------+| Sky | 4 || Ben | 2 || Travis | 3 || Arthur | 2 || Benjamin | 1 |+----------+-----------------------+
To return students who were enrolled in quarter 1 or 2:
SELECT fname, QUARTER(day_enrolled)FROM studentsWHERE QUARTER(day_enrolled) IN (1, 2);
+----------+-----------------------+| fname | QUARTER(day_enrolled) |+----------+-----------------------+| Ben | 2 || Arthur | 2 || Benjamin | 1 |+----------+-----------------------+
To retrieve quarter from datetime:
SELECT QUARTER('2020-04-12 06:05:55');
+--------------------------------+| QUARTER('2020-04-12 06:05:55') |+--------------------------------+| 2 |+--------------------------------+
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_quarter
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