The transformation language includes a group of date functions to round, truncate, or compare dates, extract one part of a date, or perform arithmetic on a date.
You can pass any value with a date datatype to any of the date functions. However, if you want to pass a string to a date function, you must first use the TO_DATE function to convert it to a transformation Date/Time datatype.
The transformation language includes the following date functions:
ADD_TO_DATE
DATE_COMPARE
DATE_DIFF
GET_DATE_PART
IS_DATE
LAST_DAY
MAKE_DATE_TIME
MAX
MIN
ROUND(Date)
SET_DATE_PART
SYSTIMESTAMP
TO_CHAR(Date)
TIME_RANGE
TRUNC(Date)
Several of the date functions include a
format
argument. You must specify one of the transformation language format strings for this argument. Date format strings are not internationalized.
The Date/Time transformation datatype supports dates with precision to the nanosecond.