DATESUB

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

Subtract an interval of type java.lang.Number (number of days) or org.jooq.types.Interval (SQL interval type) from a date (represented by java.sql.Date).

SELECT DATE '2020-02-03' - 2;

create.select(dateSub(Date.valueOf("2020-02-03"), 2)).fetch();

The result being

+------------+
| date_sub   |
+------------+
| 2020-02-01 |
+------------+

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

dateSub(Date.valueOf("2020-02-03"), 2)

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

-- ACCESS
dateadd('d', -2, #2020/02/03#)

-- ASE, SYBASE
dateadd(DAY, -2, '2020-02-03')

-- AURORA_MYSQL, MEMSQL, MYSQL
date_add({d '2020-02-03'}, INTERVAL -2 DAY)

-- AURORA_POSTGRES, COCKROACHDB, POSTGRES, REDSHIFT, YUGABYTEDB
(DATE '2020-02-03' + -2)

-- BIGQUERY
timestamp_sub(DATE '2020-02-03', INTERVAL 2 DAY)

-- DB2, HSQLDB
(DATE '2020-02-03' - (2) day)

-- DERBY
CAST({fn timestampadd(SQL_TSI_DAY, -2, DATE('2020-02-03')) } AS DATE)

-- EXASOL, H2, ORACLE, VERTICA
(DATE '2020-02-03' - 2)

-- FIREBIRD, SNOWFLAKE
dateadd(DAY, -2, DATE '2020-02-03')

-- HANA
add_days(DATE '2020-02-03', -2)

-- INFORMIX
(DATETIME(2020-02-03) YEAR TO DAY - 2 UNITS DAY)

-- MARIADB
date_add(DATE '2020-02-03', INTERVAL -2 DAY)

-- SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLSERVER
dateadd(DAY, -2, CAST('2020-02-03' AS date))

-- SQLITE
strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%f', '2020-02-03', (CAST(-2 AS varchar) || ' day'))

-- TERADATA
DATE '2020-02-03' - CAST(2 || ' 00:00:00' AS INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND)

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.18, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

The jOOQ User Manual : SQL building : Column expressions : Datetime functions : DATESUB

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