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MONTHNAME Function
The MONTHNAME function converts a DATE or TIMESTAMP expression into a character literal
that is the name of the month of the year (January, February, and so on).
MONTHNAME is a Neoview SQL extension.
MONTHNAME (datetime-expression)
datetime-expression
is an expression that evaluates to a datetime value of type DATE or TIMESTAMP. See
"Datetime Value Expressions" (page
Example of MONTHNAME
Return a character literal that is the month of the year from the START_DATE column in the
PROJECT table:
SELECT start_date, ship_timestamp, MONTHNAME(start_date)
FROM persnl.project
WHERE projcode = 1000;
Start/Date
----------
1996-04-10
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Time/Shipped
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1996-04-21 08:15:00.000000
210).
(EXPR)
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April
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