This function takes the difference between two dates and shows it in a date format yyyy-mm-dd. All you need is to execute the code below and then use the function. After executing you can use it like this
SELECT datedifference(date1, date2)
FROM ....
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.
.
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DELIMITER $$
CREATE FUNCTION datedifference(date1 DATE, date2 DATE) RETURNS DATE
NO SQL
BEGIN
DECLARE dif DATE;
IF DATEDIFF(date1, DATE(CONCAT(YEAR(date1),'-', MONTH(date1), '-', DAY(date2)))) < 0 THEN
SET dif=DATE_FORMAT(
CONCAT(
PERIOD_DIFF(date_format(date1, '%y%m'),date_format(date2, '%y%m'))DIV 12 ,
'-',
PERIOD_DIFF(date_format(date1, '%y%m'),date_format(date2, '%y%m'))% 12 ,
'-',
DATEDIFF(date1, DATE(CONCAT(YEAR(date1),'-', MONTH(DATE_SUB(date1, INTERVAL 1 MONTH)), '-', DAY(date2))))),
'%Y-%m-%d');
ELSEIF DATEDIFF(date1, DATE(CONCAT(YEAR(date1),'-', MONTH(date1), '-', DAY(date2)))) < DAY(LAST_DAY(DATE_SUB(date1, INTERVAL 1 MONTH))) THEN
SET dif=DATE_FORMAT(
CONCAT(
PERIOD_DIFF(date_format(date1, '%y%m'),date_format(date2, '%y%m'))DIV 12 ,
'-',
PERIOD_DIFF(date_format(date1, '%y%m'),date_format(date2, '%y%m'))% 12 ,
'-',
DATEDIFF(date1, DATE(CONCAT(YEAR(date1),'-', MONTH(date1), '-', DAY(date2))))),
'%Y-%m-%d');
ELSE
SET dif=DATE_FORMAT(
CONCAT(
PERIOD_DIFF(date_format(date1, '%y%m'),date_format(date2, '%y%m'))DIV 12 ,
'-',
PERIOD_DIFF(date_format(date1, '%y%m'),date_format(date2, '%y%m'))% 12 ,
'-',
DATEDIFF(date1, DATE(CONCAT(YEAR(date1),'-', MONTH(date1), '-', DAY(date2))))),
'%Y-%m-%d');
END IF;
RETURN dif;
END $$
DELIMITER;
DATEDIFF() function :
This function in SQL Server is used to find the difference between the two specified dates.
Features :
- This function is used to find the difference between the two given dates values.
- This function comes under Date Functions.
- This function accepts three parameters namely interval, first value of date, and second value of date.
- This function can include time in the interval section and also in the date value section.
Syntax :
DATEDIFF(interval, date1, date2)
Parameter :
This method accepts three parameters as given below :
- interval : It is the specified part which is to be returned. Moreover, the values of the interval can be as given below:
- year, yyyy, yy = Year, which is the specified year.
- quarter, qq, q = Quarter, which is the specified quarter.
- month, mm, m = month, which is the specified month.
- dayofyear, dy, y = Day of the year, which is the specified day of the year.
- day, dd, d = Day, which is the specified day.
- week, ww, wk = Week, which is the specified week.
- weekday, dw, w = Weekday, which is the specified week day.
- hour, hh = hour, which is the specified hour.
- minute, mi, n = Minute, which is the specified minute.
- second, ss, s = Second, which is the specified second.
- millisecond, ms = Millisecond, which is the specified millisecond.
- date1, date2 : The two specified dates in order to find the difference between them.
Returns :
It returns the difference between the two specified dates.
Example-1 :
Using DATEDIFF() function and getting the difference between two values of dates, in years.
SELECT DATEDIFF(year, '2010/01/12', '2021/01/12');
Output :
11
Example-2 :
Using DATEDIFF() function and getting the difference between two values of dates, in months.
SELECT DATEDIFF(month, '2010/2/12', '2021/12/12');
Output :
142
Example-3 :
Using DATEDIFF() function and getting the negative difference between the two values of dates, in day.
SELECT DATEDIFF(day, '2021/2/1', '2010/12/12');
Output :
-3704
Example-4 :
Using DATEDIFF() function and getting the difference between the two values of dates which includes time as well, in hour.
SELECT DATEDIFF(hour, '2019/2/1 09:55', '2020/12/12 07:45');
Output :
16318
Example-5 :
Using DATEDIFF() function and getting the difference between the two values of dates using variables which includes time as well, in second.
DECLARE @date1 VARCHAR(50); DECLARE @date2 VARCHAR(50); SET @date1 = '2019/2/1 09:55:44'; SET @date2 = '2020/12/12 07:45:22'; SELECT DATEDIFF(second, @date1, @date2);
Output :
58744178
Application :
This function is used to find the difference between two specified values of date.
Last Updated :
18 Jan, 2021
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DATEDIFF (Transact-SQL)
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This function returns the count (as a signed integer value) of the specified datepart boundaries crossed between the specified startdate and enddate.
See DATEDIFF_BIG (Transact-SQL) for a function that handles larger differences between the startdate and enddate values. See Date and Time Data Types and Functions (Transact-SQL) for an overview of all [!INCLUDEtsql] date and time data types and functions.
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Syntax
DATEDIFF ( datepart , startdate , enddate )
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Arguments
datepart
The units in which DATEDIFF reports the difference between the startdate and enddate. Commonly used datepart units include month
or second
.
The datepart value cannot be specified in a variable, nor as a quoted string like 'month'
.
The following table lists all the valid datepart values. DATEDIFF accepts either the full name of the datepart, or any listed abbreviation of the full name.
datepart name | datepart abbreviation |
---|---|
year | y, yy, yyyy |
quarter | qq, q |
month | mm, m |
dayofyear | dy |
day | dd, d |
week | wk, ww |
hour | hh |
minute | mi, n |
second | ss, s |
millisecond | ms |
microsecond | mcs |
nanosecond | ns |
[!NOTE]
Each specific datepart name and abbreviations for that datepart name will return the same value.
startdate
An expression that can resolve to one of the following values:
- date
- datetime
- datetimeoffset
- datetime2
- smalldatetime
- time
Use four-digit years to avoid ambiguity. See Configure the two digit year cutoff Server Configuration Option for information about two-digit year values.
enddate
See startdate.
Return Type
int
Return Value
The int difference between the startdate and enddate, expressed in the boundary set by datepart.
For example, SELECT DATEDIFF(day, '2036-03-01', '2036-02-28');
returns -2, hinting that 2036 must be a leap year. This case means that if we start at startdate ‘2036-03-01’, and then count -2 days, we reach the enddate of ‘2036-02-28’.
For a return value out of range for int (-2,147,483,648 to +2,147,483,647), DATEDIFF
returns an error. For millisecond, the maximum difference between startdate and enddate is 24 days, 20 hours, 31 minutes and 23.647 seconds. For second, the maximum difference is 68 years, 19 days, 3 hours, 14 minutes and 7 seconds.
If startdate and enddate are both assigned only a time value, and the datepart is not a time datepart, DATEDIFF
returns 0.
DATEDIFF
uses the time zone offset component of startdate or enddate to calculate the return value.
Because smalldatetime is accurate only to the minute, seconds and milliseconds are always set to 0 in the return value when startdate or enddate have a smalldatetime value.
If only a time value is assigned to a date data type variable, DATEDIFF
sets the value of the missing date part to the default value: 1900-01-01
. If only a date value is assigned to a variable of a time or date data type, DATEDIFF
sets the value of the missing time part to the default value: 00:00:00
. If either startdate or enddate have only a time part and the other only a date part, DATEDIFF
sets the missing time and date parts to the default values.
If startdate and enddate have different date data types, and one has more time parts or fractional seconds precision than the other, DATEDIFF
sets the missing parts of the other to 0.
datepart boundaries
The following statements have the same startdate and the same enddate values. Those dates are adjacent and they differ in time by a hundred nanoseconds (.0000001 second). The difference between the startdate and enddate in each statement crosses one calendar or time boundary of its datepart. Each statement returns 1.
SELECT DATEDIFF(year, '2005-12-31 23:59:59.9999999', '2006-01-01 00:00:00.0000000'); SELECT DATEDIFF(quarter, '2005-12-31 23:59:59.9999999', '2006-01-01 00:00:00.0000000'); SELECT DATEDIFF(month, '2005-12-31 23:59:59.9999999', '2006-01-01 00:00:00.0000000'); SELECT DATEDIFF(dayofyear, '2005-12-31 23:59:59.9999999', '2006-01-01 00:00:00.0000000'); SELECT DATEDIFF(day, '2005-12-31 23:59:59.9999999', '2006-01-01 00:00:00.0000000'); SELECT DATEDIFF(week, '2005-12-31 23:59:59.9999999', '2006-01-01 00:00:00.0000000'); SELECT DATEDIFF(hour, '2005-12-31 23:59:59.9999999', '2006-01-01 00:00:00.0000000'); SELECT DATEDIFF(minute, '2005-12-31 23:59:59.9999999', '2006-01-01 00:00:00.0000000'); SELECT DATEDIFF(second, '2005-12-31 23:59:59.9999999', '2006-01-01 00:00:00.0000000'); SELECT DATEDIFF(millisecond, '2005-12-31 23:59:59.9999999', '2006-01-01 00:00:00.0000000'); SELECT DATEDIFF(microsecond, '2005-12-31 23:59:59.9999999', '2006-01-01 00:00:00.0000000');
If startdate and enddate have different year values, but they have the same calendar week values, DATEDIFF
will return 0 for datepart week.
Remarks
Use DATEDIFF
in the SELECT <list>
, WHERE
, HAVING
, GROUP BY
and ORDER BY
clauses.
DATEDIFF
implicitly casts string literals as a datetime2 type. This means that DATEDIFF
does not support the format YDM when the date is passed as a string. You must explicitly cast the string to a datetime or smalldatetime type to use the YDM format.
Specifying SET DATEFIRST
has no effect on DATEDIFF
. DATEDIFF
always uses Sunday as the first day of the week to ensure the function operates in a deterministic way.
DATEDIFF
may overflow with a precision of minute or higher if the difference between enddate and startdate returns a value that is out of range for int.
Examples
These examples use different types of expressions as arguments for the startdate and enddate parameters.
A. Specifying columns for startdate and enddate
This example calculates the number of day boundaries crossed between dates in two columns in a table.
CREATE TABLE dbo.Duration (startDate datetime2, endDate datetime2); INSERT INTO dbo.Duration(startDate, endDate) VALUES ('2007-05-06 12:10:09', '2007-05-07 12:10:09'); SELECT DATEDIFF(day, startDate, endDate) AS 'Duration' FROM dbo.Duration; -- Returns: 1
B. Specifying user-defined variables for startdate and enddate
In this example, user-defined variables serve as arguments for startdate and enddate.
DECLARE @startdate DATETIME2 = '2007-05-05 12:10:09.3312722'; DECLARE @enddate DATETIME2 = '2007-05-04 12:10:09.3312722'; SELECT DATEDIFF(day, @startdate, @enddate);
C. Specifying scalar system functions for startdate and enddate
This example uses scalar system functions as arguments for startdate and enddate.
SELECT DATEDIFF(millisecond, GETDATE(), SYSDATETIME());
D. Specifying scalar subqueries and scalar functions for startdate and enddate
This example uses scalar subqueries and scalar functions as arguments for startdate and enddate.
USE AdventureWorks2012; GO SELECT DATEDIFF(day, (SELECT MIN(OrderDate) FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader), (SELECT MAX(OrderDate) FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader));
E. Specifying constants for startdate and enddate
This example uses character constants as arguments for startdate and enddate.
SELECT DATEDIFF(day, '2007-05-07 09:53:01.0376635', '2007-05-08 09:53:01.0376635');
F. Specifying numeric expressions and scalar system functions for enddate
This example uses a numeric expression, (GETDATE() + 1)
, and scalar system functions GETDATE
and SYSDATETIME
, as arguments for enddate.
USE AdventureWorks2012; GO SELECT DATEDIFF(day, '2007-05-07 09:53:01.0376635', GETDATE() + 1) AS NumberOfDays FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader; GO USE AdventureWorks2012; GO SELECT DATEDIFF( day, '2007-05-07 09:53:01.0376635', DATEADD(day, 1, SYSDATETIME()) ) AS NumberOfDays FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader; GO
G. Specifying ranking functions for startdate
This example uses a ranking function as an argument for startdate.
USE AdventureWorks2012; GO SELECT p.FirstName, p.LastName ,DATEDIFF(day, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY a.PostalCode), SYSDATETIME()) AS 'Row Number' FROM Sales.SalesPerson s INNER JOIN Person.Person p ON s.BusinessEntityID = p.BusinessEntityID INNER JOIN Person.Address a ON a.AddressID = p.BusinessEntityID WHERE TerritoryID IS NOT NULL AND SalesYTD <> 0;
H. Specifying an aggregate window function for startdate
This example uses an aggregate window function as an argument for startdate.
USE AdventureWorks2012; GO SELECT soh.SalesOrderID, sod.ProductID, sod.OrderQty, soh.OrderDate, DATEDIFF(day, MIN(soh.OrderDate) OVER(PARTITION BY soh.SalesOrderID), SYSDATETIME()) AS 'Total' FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail sod INNER JOIN Sales.SalesOrderHeader soh ON sod.SalesOrderID = soh.SalesOrderID WHERE soh.SalesOrderID IN(43659, 58918); GO
I. Finding difference between startdate and enddate as date parts strings
-- DOES NOT ACCOUNT FOR LEAP YEARS DECLARE @date1 DATETIME, @date2 DATETIME, @result VARCHAR(100); DECLARE @years INT, @months INT, @days INT, @hours INT, @minutes INT, @seconds INT, @milliseconds INT; SET @date1 = '1900-01-01 00:00:00.000' SET @date2 = '2018-12-12 07:08:01.123' SELECT @years = DATEDIFF(yy, @date1, @date2) IF DATEADD(yy, -@years, @date2) < @date1 SELECT @years = @years-1 SET @date2 = DATEADD(yy, -@years, @date2) SELECT @months = DATEDIFF(mm, @date1, @date2) IF DATEADD(mm, -@months, @date2) < @date1 SELECT @months=@months-1 SET @date2= DATEADD(mm, -@months, @date2) SELECT @days=DATEDIFF(dd, @date1, @date2) IF DATEADD(dd, -@days, @date2) < @date1 SELECT @days=@days-1 SET @date2= DATEADD(dd, -@days, @date2) SELECT @hours=DATEDIFF(hh, @date1, @date2) IF DATEADD(hh, -@hours, @date2) < @date1 SELECT @hours=@hours-1 SET @date2= DATEADD(hh, -@hours, @date2) SELECT @minutes=DATEDIFF(mi, @date1, @date2) IF DATEADD(mi, -@minutes, @date2) < @date1 SELECT @minutes=@minutes-1 SET @date2= DATEADD(mi, -@minutes, @date2) SELECT @seconds=DATEDIFF(s, @date1, @date2) IF DATEADD(s, -@seconds, @date2) < @date1 SELECT @seconds=@seconds-1 SET @date2= DATEADD(s, -@seconds, @date2) SELECT @milliseconds=DATEDIFF(ms, @date1, @date2) SELECT @result= ISNULL(CAST(NULLIF(@years,0) AS VARCHAR(10)) + ' years,','') + ISNULL(' ' + CAST(NULLIF(@months,0) AS VARCHAR(10)) + ' months,','') + ISNULL(' ' + CAST(NULLIF(@days,0) AS VARCHAR(10)) + ' days,','') + ISNULL(' ' + CAST(NULLIF(@hours,0) AS VARCHAR(10)) + ' hours,','') + ISNULL(' ' + CAST(@minutes AS VARCHAR(10)) + ' minutes and','') + ISNULL(' ' + CAST(@seconds AS VARCHAR(10)) + CASE WHEN @milliseconds > 0 THEN '.' + CAST(@milliseconds AS VARCHAR(10)) ELSE '' END + ' seconds','') SELECT @result
[!INCLUDEssResult]
118 years, 11 months, 11 days, 7 hours, 8 minutes and 1.123 seconds
Examples: [!INCLUDEssazuresynapse-md] and [!INCLUDEssPDW]
These examples use different types of expressions as arguments for the startdate and enddate parameters.
J. Specifying columns for startdate and enddate
This example calculates the number of day boundaries crossed between dates in two columns in a table.
CREATE TABLE dbo.Duration (startDate datetime2, endDate datetime2); INSERT INTO dbo.Duration (startDate, endDate) VALUES ('2007-05-06 12:10:09', '2007-05-07 12:10:09'); SELECT TOP(1) DATEDIFF(day, startDate, endDate) AS Duration FROM dbo.Duration; -- Returns: 1
K. Specifying scalar subqueries and scalar functions for startdate and enddate
This example uses scalar subqueries and scalar functions as arguments for startdate and enddate.
-- Uses AdventureWorks SELECT TOP(1) DATEDIFF(day, (SELECT MIN(HireDate) FROM dbo.DimEmployee), (SELECT MAX(HireDate) FROM dbo.DimEmployee)) FROM dbo.DimEmployee;
L. Specifying constants for startdate and enddate
This example uses character constants as arguments for startdate and enddate.
-- Uses AdventureWorks SELECT TOP(1) DATEDIFF(day, '2007-05-07 09:53:01.0376635', '2007-05-08 09:53:01.0376635') FROM DimCustomer;
M. Specifying ranking functions for startdate
This example uses a ranking function as an argument for startdate.
-- Uses AdventureWorks SELECT FirstName, LastName, DATEDIFF(day, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY DepartmentName), SYSDATETIME()) AS RowNumber FROM dbo.DimEmployee;
N. Specifying an aggregate window function for startdate
This example uses an aggregate window function as an argument for startdate.
-- Uses AdventureWorks SELECT FirstName, LastName, DepartmentName, DATEDIFF(year, MAX(HireDate) OVER (PARTITION BY DepartmentName), SYSDATETIME()) AS SomeValue FROM dbo.DimEmployee
See also
DATEDIFF_BIG (Transact-SQL)
CAST and CONVERT (Transact-SQL)
DATEDIFF
Возвращает разницу в днях между датами. При вычислении разницы используется дата, время не используется.
MySQL
DATEDIFF(datetime1, datetime2)
Примеры
MySQL
SELECT DATEDIFF('2022-12-05','2022-12-01')
Summary: in this tutorial, you will learn how to use the SQL DATEDIFF()
function to calculate the difference between two dates.
Syntax
To calculate the difference between two dates, you use the DATEDIFF()
function. The following illustrates the syntax of the DATEDIFF()
function in SQL Server:
Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)
DATEDIFF ( datepart , startdate , enddate )
Arguments
datepart
The datepart
is a part of the date in which you want the function to return. The following table illustrates the valid parts of date in SQL Server:
Valid Date Part | Abbreviations |
---|---|
year | yy, yyyy |
quarter | qq, q |
month | mm, m |
dayofyear | dy, y |
day | dd, d |
week | wk, ww |
weekday | dw, w |
hour | hh |
minute | mi, n |
second | ss, s |
millisecond | ms |
microsecond | mcs |
nanosecond | ns |
startdate, enddate
The startdate
and enddate
are date literals or expressions from which you want to find the difference.
Return
The DATEDIFF()
function returns an integer value with the unit specified by the datepart
argument.
Examples
The following example returns the number of year between two dates:
Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)
SELECT DATEDIFF(year,'2015-01-01','2018-01-01');
Here is the result:
Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)
3
To get the number of month or day, you change the first argument to month or day as shown below:
Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)
SELECT DATEDIFF(month,'2015-01-01','2018-01-01'), DATEDIFF(day,'2015-01-01','2018-01-01');
The following shows the result:
Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)
m d ----------- ----------- 36 1096
Notice that the DATEDIFF()
function takes the leap year into account. As shown clearly in the result, because 2016 is the leap year, the difference in days between two dates is 2×365 + 366 = 1096.
The following example illustrates how to use the DATEDIFF()
function to calculate the difference in hours between two DATETIME
values:
Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)
SELECT DATEDIFF(hour,'2015-01-01 01:00:00','2015-01-01 03:00:00');
The result is:
Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)
2
Consider the following example:
Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)
SELECT DATEDIFF(hour,'2015-01-01 01:00:00','2015-01-01 03:45:00');
It also returns two because the DATEDIFF()
function returns an integer only. In this case, it truncated the minute part and only consider the hour part.
Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)
2
The following example shows how to use the DATEDIFF()
function to calculate the year of services of employees up to January 1st, 2018:
Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)
SELECT first_name, last_name, DATEDIFF(year, hire_date, '2018-01-01') year_of_services FROM employees;
DATEDIFF in MySQL
Unlike SQL Server, MySQL has a slightly different DATEDIFF()
function syntax:
Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)
DATEDIFF(startdate,enddate)
MySQL only returns the difference between two dates in days. It ignores all the time part of the date in the calculation. See the following example:
Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)
SELECT DATEDIFF('2018-08-09','2018-08-18');
The result is nine days:
Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)
9
In this tutorial, you have learned how to use the SQL DATEDIFF()
function to calculate the difference between two dates.
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