QUARTER( ) Function
Returns the quarter of the year in which a date or datetime expression occurs.
QUARTER(dExpression | tExpression [, nMonth])
Parameters
dExpression
Specifies the Date expression for which you want QUARTER( ) to return a value.tExpression
Specifies the DateTime expression for which you want QUARTER( ) to return a value.nMonth
Specifies an optional starting month to the examined quarter. You can use this to specify quarters based on a fiscal rather than a calendar year.
Return Value
Numeric data type. QUARTER( ) returns the quarter of the year in which a date occurs, and the values can be 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4.
Note
QUARTER( ) returns 0 if passed an empty Date or DateTime value, for example, QUARTER({//}).