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DATESUB
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
Subtract an interval of type java.lang.Number (number of days) or org.jooq.types.Interval (SQL interval type) from a date (represented by java.sql.Date).
SELECT DATE '2020-02-03' - 2;
create.select(dateSub(Date.valueOf("2020-02-03"), 2)).fetch();
The result being
+------------+ | date_sub | +------------+ | 2020-02-01 | +------------+
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
dateSub(Date.valueOf("2020-02-03"), 2)
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
-- ACCESS
dateadd('d', -2, #2020/02/03#)
-- ASE, SYBASE
dateadd(DAY, -2, '2020-02-03')
-- AURORA_MYSQL, MEMSQL, MYSQL
date_add({d '2020-02-03'}, INTERVAL -2 DAY)
-- AURORA_POSTGRES, COCKROACHDB, POSTGRES, REDSHIFT, YUGABYTEDB
(DATE '2020-02-03' + -2)
-- BIGQUERY
timestamp_sub(DATE '2020-02-03', INTERVAL 2 DAY)
-- DB2, HSQLDB
(DATE '2020-02-03' - (2) day)
-- DERBY
CAST({fn timestampadd(SQL_TSI_DAY, -2, DATE('2020-02-03')) } AS DATE)
-- DUCKDB, EXASOL, H2, ORACLE, VERTICA
(DATE '2020-02-03' - 2)
-- FIREBIRD, SNOWFLAKE
dateadd(DAY, -2, DATE '2020-02-03')
-- HANA
add_days(DATE '2020-02-03', -2)
-- INFORMIX
(DATETIME(2020-02-03) YEAR TO DAY - 2 UNITS DAY)
-- MARIADB
date_add(DATE '2020-02-03', INTERVAL -2 DAY)
-- SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLSERVER
dateadd(DAY, -2, CAST('2020-02-03' AS date))
-- SQLITE
strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%f', '2020-02-03', (CAST(-2 AS varchar) || ' day'))
-- TERADATA
DATE '2020-02-03' - CAST(2 || ' 00:00:00' AS INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND)
-- TRINO
date_add('day', -2, DATE '2020-02-03')
(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.19, see #10141), or translate your own on our website
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