Example: Querying Number of Months from the Beginning of the Calendar - Analytics Database - Teradata Vantage

SQL Date and Time Functions and Expressions

Deployment
VantageCloud
VantageCore
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IntelliFlex
VMware
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Analytics Database
Teradata Vantage
Release Number
17.20
Published
June 2022
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Teradata Vantage™

If the current date is May 5, 1901, the following query returns 17 because May 5, 1901, is in the 17th month since the start of the Teradata calendar on 1900-01-01:

SELECT TD_SYSFNLIB.MONTHNUMBER_OF_CALENDAR(CURRENT_DATE);

The following query returns 17 because May 5, 1901, is in the 17th month since the start of the COMPATIBLE calendar on 1900-01-01:

SELECT TD_SYSFNLIB.MONTHNUMBER_OF_CALENDAR(DATE '1901-05-05', ’COMPATIBLE’);