Continuing my series on how same things can be done differently in SQL Server and MySQL, in this post, we will see some Date Functions in SQL Server
and MySQL. I have put them in a table format so that it becomes easier for you to follow:
| SNo | Purpose | SQL Server | MySQL |
| 1 | Find out current date and time | Getdate() | now() |
| 2 | Find out day name of current date | datename(weekday ,getdate()) | Dayname(now()) |
| 3 | Find out day of month | datename(day,getdate()) | dayofmonth(now()) |
| 4 | Find out day of week | datepart(weekday,getdate()) | dayofweek(now()) |
| 5 | Find out day of year | datepart(weekday,getdate()) | dayofyear(now()) |
| 6 | Find out year value | year(getdate()) | year(now()) |
| 7 | Find out month value | month(getdate()) | month(now()) |
| 8 | Find out day value | day(getdate()) | day(now()) |
| 9 | Find out last day of month | eomonth(getdate()) | last_day(now()) |
| 10 | Find out month name | datename(month,getdate()) | monthname(now()) |
| 11 | Find out Time value from seconds | cast(dateadd(second,seconds_value,0) as time) | sec_to_time(seconds_value) |
| 12 | Subtract days from date | dateadd(day,-day_value,getdate()) | date_sub(now(), interval day_value day) |
| 13 | Add days to date | dateadd(day,day_value,getdate()) | adddate(now(), interval day_value day) |
| 13 | Get UTCDATE | GETUTCDATE () | UTC_TIMESTAMP() |
| 14 | Format a date (dd-mm-yyyy) | format(getdate(),'d-MM-yyyy') | DATE_FORMAT(now(), '%d-%c-%Y'); |