QUARTER

Return the quarter of the year. This function returns a number from 1 to 4 indicating the quarter for a given date.

Syntax

QUARTER(date)

Description

Returns the quarter of the year for date, in the range 1 to 4. Returns 0 if month contains a zero value, or NULL if the given value is not otherwise a valid date (zero values are accepted).

Examples

SELECT QUARTER('2008-04-01');
+-----------------------+
| QUARTER('2008-04-01') |
+-----------------------+
|                     2 |
+-----------------------+

SELECT QUARTER('2019-00-01');
+-----------------------+
| QUARTER('2019-00-01') |
+-----------------------+
|                     0 |
+-----------------------+

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