Name

dayofweek — get day of week from a datetime

Synopsis

dayofweek ( in dt datetime );

Description

dayofweek takes a datetime and returns an integer containing a number representing the day of week of the datetime.

Parameters

dt

A datetime .

Return Values

An INTEGER containing number of the day of week.

Examples

Example24.84.Simple example

Get current day of week.

SQL> select dayofweek(now());
callret
INTEGER
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