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, HANA, HSQLDB, 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, REDSHIFT, SNOWFLAKE, YUGABYTEDB
/* UNSUPPORTED */

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.17, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

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

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