MySQL Date and Time Exercises: Extract the year from the current date

MySQL Date Time: Exercise-9 with Solution

Write a MySQL query to extract the year from the current date.

Code:

-- This SQL query extracts the year component from the current date and time.

SELECT 
EXTRACT(YEAR FROM NOW());

Explanation:

• The EXTRACT() function is used to extract a specific component (in this case, the year) from a date or datetime expression.
• YEAR is specified as the component to extract from the current date and time returned by the NOW() function.
• The result of this query will be the current year extracted from the current date and time.

Sample Output:

EXTRACT(YEAR FROM NOW())
2017

MySQL Code Editor:

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