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DATE

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

Convert an ISO 8601 DATE string literal into a SQL DATE type (represented by java.sql.Date).

SELECT CAST('2020-02-03' AS DATE);
create.select(date("2020-02-03")).fetch();

The result being

+------------+
| date       |
+------------+
| 2020-02-03 |
+------------+

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

date("2020-02-03")

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Access

#2020/02/03#

ASE, SQLite, Sybase

'2020-02-03'

Aurora MySQL, MemSQL, MySQL

{d '2020-02-03'}

Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, DB2, Exasol, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, MariaDB, Oracle, Postgres, Teradata, Vertica

DATE '2020-02-03'

Derby

DATE('2020-02-03')

Informix

DATETIME(2020-02-03) YEAR TO DAY

SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer

CAST('2020-02-03' AS date)

BigQuery, ClickHouse, DuckDB, Redshift, Snowflake, Trino, YugabyteDB

/* UNSUPPORTED */

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.20, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

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