TO_CHAR
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The TO_CHAR() function converts a value to a string value using a vendor-specific format mask.
SELECT to_char(date '2000-01-01, 'YYYY/MM/DD');
create.select(toChar(Date.valueOf("2000-01-01"), "YYYY/MM/DD")).fetch();
The result being
+------------+ | to_char | +------------+ | 2000/01/01 | +------------+
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
toChar(Date.valueOf("2000-01-01"), "YYYY/MM/DD")
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Aurora Postgres, DB2, H2, Oracle, Postgres, Redshift
to_char(DATE '2000-01-01', 'YYYY/MM/DD')
ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, BigQuery, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, Databricks, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, SQLite, Snowflake, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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