datepart

Is the parameter that specifies the part of the date to return. The following table lists dateparts and abbreviations recognized by Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

Datepart	Abbreviations
year	yy, yyyy
quarter	qq, q
month	mm, m
dayofyear	dy, y
day	dd, d
week	wk, ww
weekday	dw
hour	hh
minute	mi, n
second	ss, s
millisecond	ms

The weekday (dw) datepart returns the day of the week, such as Sunday, Monday, and so on.

date

Is an expression that returns a datetime or smalldatetime value, or a character string in a date format. Use the datetime data type for dates after January 1, 1753. Store as character data for earlier dates. When entering datetime values, always enclose them in quotation marks. Because smalldatetime is accurate only to the minute, when a smalldatetime value is used, seconds and milliseconds are always 0. For more information about how to specify dates, see Date and Time (Transact-SQL). For more information about how to specify time values, see Time Formats.

If you specify only the last two digits of the year, values less than or equal to the last two digits of the value of the two-digit year cutoff configuration option are in the same century as the cutoff year. Values greater than the last two digits of the value of this option are in the century that comes before the cutoff year. For example, if a two-digit year cutoff is 2049 (default), 49 is interpreted as 2049 and 50 is interpreted as 1950. To avoid ambiguity, use four-digit years.

nvarchar

The SQL Server 2005 Database Engine automatically converts between character and datetime values as needed, for example, when you compare a character value with a datetime value.

The following example extracts the month name from the date returned by GETDATE.

SELECT DATENAME(month, GETDATE()) AS 'Month Name';

Here is the result set.

Month Name

------------------------------

February

The following example extracts the month name from a column.

USE AdventureWorks;
GO
SELECT StartDate, DATENAME(month,StartDate) AS StartMonth
FROM Production.WorkOrder
WHERE WorkOrderID = 1;
GO

Here is the result set.

StartDate StartMonth

-------------------------------- ------------

2001-07-04 00:00:00.000 July

The following examples show each datepart argument with the date argument in this format, 'YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.xxx'.

SELECT DATENAME(year,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
SELECT DATENAME(yy,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
SELECT DATENAME(yyyy,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
-- Return: 1995

SELECT DATENAME(quarter,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
SELECT DATENAME(qq,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
SELECT DATENAME(q,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
-- Return: 4

SELECT DATENAME(month,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
SELECT DATENAME(mm,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
SELECT DATENAME(m,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
-- Return: October

SELECT DATENAME(dayofyear,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
SELECT DATENAME(dy,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
SELECT DATENAME(y,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
-- Return: 303

SELECT DATENAME(day,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
SELECT DATENAME(dd,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
SELECT DATENAME(d,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
-- Return: 30

SELECT DATENAME(week,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
SELECT DATENAME(wk,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
SELECT DATENAME(ww,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
-- Return: 44

SELECT DATENAME(weekday,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
SELECT DATENAME(dw,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
-- Return: Monday

SELECT DATENAME(hour,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
SELECT DATENAME(hour,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
SELECT DATENAME(hh,'10/30/1995 12:15:32.123 PM');
SELECT DATENAME(hh,'10/30/1995 12:15:32.123 PM');
-- Return: 12

SELECT DATENAME(minute,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
SELECT DATENAME(mi,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
SELECT DATENAME(n,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
-- Return: 15
 
SELECT DATENAME(second,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
SELECT DATENAME(ss,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
SELECT DATENAME(s,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
-- Return: 32

SELECT DATENAME(millisecond,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
SELECT DATENAME(ms,'1995-10-30 12:15:32.123');
-- Return: 123

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