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SQL โ€ข LESSON 127

Extract Year

How can we extract the numerical year from an order date?

Advancedโฑ 3 Minutesโญ 1400 XP
๐Ÿค” THE QUESTION

How can we extract the numerical year from an order date?

๐Ÿ’ก WHAT IS IT?

EXTRACT(YEAR FROM date) extracts the calendar year integer from timestamps or date fields.

๐ŸŽฏ WHAT IS IT USED FOR?

Annual aggregations, cohort classification, annual growth modeling.

๐Ÿ’ป EXAMPLE
SELECT
order_id,
EXTRACT(YEAR FROM order_date) AS order_year
FROM orders;

๐ŸŽฏ Mission Objectives

Practice typing production-grade SQL code for Extract Year.

  • โœ“ EXTRACT(YEAR ...)
  • โœ“ Date component extraction
  • โœ“ Year attribute
  • โœ“ Temporal projection