MySQL WEEKDAY() function

Last update on August 19 2022 21:50:42 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

WEEKDAY() function

MySQL WEEKDAY() returns the index of the day in a week for a given date (0 for Monday, 1 for Tuesday and ......6 for Sunday).

Syntax:

WEEKDAY(date)

Where date is a date.

Syntax Diagram:

MySQL Version: 5.6

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Example: MySQL WEEKDAY() function

The following statement will return the index of the week for the date 2009-05-19.

Code:

SELECT WEEKDAY('2009-05-19');

Sample Output:

mysql> SELECT WEEKDAY('2009-05-19');
+-----------------------+
| WEEKDAY('2009-05-19') |
+-----------------------+
|                     1 | 
+-----------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

PHP script:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>example-WEEKDAY-function - php mysql examples | w3resource</title>
<meta name="description" content="example-WEEKDAY-function - php mysql examples | w3resource">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css">
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-12">
<h2>Index number of the specified date 2009-05-18 in the week:</h2>
<table class='table table-bordered'>
<tr>
<th>Index number of the specified date 2009-05-18 in the week</th>
</tr>
<?php
$hostname="your_hostname";
$username="your_username";
$password="your_password";
$db = "your_dbname";
$dbh = new PDO("mysql:host=$hostname;dbname=$db", $username, $password);
foreach($dbh->query('SELECT WEEKDAY("2009-05-19")') as $row) {
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>" . $row['WEEKDAY("2009-05-19")'] . "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
?>
</tbody></table>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

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JSP script:

<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<%@ page import="java.sql.*" %>
<%@ page import="java.io.*" %>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>example-weekday-function</title>
</head>
<body>
<%
try {
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance();
String Host = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/w3resour_bookinfo";
Connection connection = null;
Statement statement = null;
ResultSet rs = null;
connection = DriverManager.getConnection(Host, "root", "datasoft123");
statement = connection.createStatement();
String Data ="SELECT WEEKDAY('2009-05-19')";
rs = statement.executeQuery(Data);
%>
<TABLE border="1">
<tr width="10" bgcolor="#9979">
<td>Index number of the specified date 2009-05-18 in the week</td>
</tr>
<%
while (rs.next()) {
%>
<TR>
<TD><%=rs.getString("WEEKDAY('2009-05-19')")%></TD>

</TR>
<%   }    %>
</table>
<%
rs.close();
statement.close();
connection.close();
} catch (Exception ex) {
out.println("Can’t connect to database.");
}
%>
</body>
</html>

Example: WEEKDAY() function using on table

The following statement will return the invoice_no, receive_dt and index of the week for receive_dt, after making sure that index of the week for receive_dt must be more than 0 and less than 6 (i.e. it should be from Monday through Saturday).

Sample table: purchase

Code:

 SELECT invoice_no,receive_dt,WEEKDAY(receive_dt)
      FROM purchase           
      WHERE WEEKDAY(receive_dt)>0 
      AND WEEKDAY(receive_dt)<6;

Sample Output:

mysql> SELECT invoice_no,receive_dt,WEEKDAY(receive_dt)
    ->       FROM purchase           
    ->       WHERE WEEKDAY(receive_dt)>0 
    ->       AND WEEKDAY(receive_dt)< 6;
+------------+------------+---------------------+
| invoice_no | receive_dt | WEEKDAY(receive_dt) |
+------------+------------+---------------------+
| INV0001    | 2008-07-19 |                   5 | 
| INV0002    | 2008-08-28 |                   3 | 
| INV0003    | 2008-09-23 |                   1 | 
| INV0004    | 2007-08-30 |                   3 | 
+------------+------------+---------------------+
4 rows in set (0.06 sec)

PHP script:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>example1-WEEKDAY-function - php mysql examples | w3resource</title>
<meta name="description" content="example1-WEEKDAY-function - php mysql examples | w3resource">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css">
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-12">
<h2>Invoice no, Received date and WEEKDAY of received date where index of WEEKDAY of received date is between 1 to 5 (i.e. it should be Monday to Friday):</h2>
<table class='table table-bordered'>
<tr>
<th>Invoice no.</th><th>Received date</th><th>WEEKDAY of received date</th>
</tr>
<?php
$hostname="your_hostname";
$username="your_username";
$password="your_password";
$db = "your_dbname";
$dbh = new PDO("mysql:host=$hostname;dbname=$db", $username, $password);
foreach($dbh->query('SELECT invoice_no,receive_dt,WEEKDAY(receive_dt)
FROM purchase 
WHERE WEEKDAY(receive_dt)>0 
AND WEEKDAY(receive_dt)<6') as $row) {
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>" . $row['invoice_no'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['receive_dt'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['WEEKDAY(receive_dt)'] . "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
?>
</tbody></table>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

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