DayNumber_Of_Week
Purpose
Returns the number of days from the beginning of the week to the specified date.
Syntax
Syntax Elements
calendar_name
A calendar name. The possible values are Teradata, ISO, and COMPATIBLE.
This argument must be a character literal and cannot be a table column or expression. If you do not name a calendar, Teradata uses the calendar for the session.
expression
An expression that results in a DATE, TIMESTAMP, or TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE value.
NULL
The business calendar for the session.
TD_SYSFNLIB
Name of the database where the function is located.
ANSI Compliance
This is a Teradata extension to the ANSI SQL:2011 standard.
Argument Types
The first argument, expression, is defined with the following data types:
The second argument, calendar_name, is optional and is defined with the following argument data types:
If the argument passed to the function does not match one of these declared data types, an error is returned indicating that the function does not exist.
Result
The result is an INTEGER value between 1 and 7, representing the day of the week, where the first day of the week = 1 and the last day of the week = 7. The first day of the week is defined by the business calendar the session is using. For example, in the ISO calendar, Monday = 1 and in the Teradata business calendar Monday = 2.
Usage Notes
The DayNumber_Of_Week function provides improved performance compared to using the Sys_Calendar.Calendar system view to obtain similar results.
For more information about the CALENDAR system view, see Data Dictionary.
Example
The following query returns the names of employees who joined the company on the first day of the week:
SELECT empname from emp
WHERE DAYNUMBER_OF_WEEK (date_of_join)= 1;