Netezza SQL - Extract Month issue

Lorbat picture Lorbat · Dec 21, 2010 · Viewed 18k times · Source

How do you extract just the month from a date in netezza SQL?

The date shows as 05DEC2010.

I've tried extract(MONTH FROM CONTACT_DATE) although it doesn't work. Any ideas? I dont want just to extract a

Answer

Nik picture Nik · Jan 4, 2011

It would seem that your contact_date field isn't actually a date field. You probably need to use:

extract(month from (contact_date::date))