dayofweek function

Applies to: Databricks SQL Databricks Runtime

Returns the day of week of the date or timestamp. This function is a synonym for extract(DAYOFWEEK FROM expr).

Syntax

dayofweek(expr)

Arguments

• expr: A DATE or TIMESTAMP expression.

Returns

An INTEGER where 1 = Sunday, and 7 = Saturday.

Examples

> SELECT dayofweek('2009-07-30');
 5

Related functions

• day function
• dayofmonth function
• dayofyear function
• hour function
• minute function
• second function
• extract function
• weekday function