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CENTURY

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

Extract the CENTURY value from a datetime value.

The CENTURY function is a short version of the EXTRACT, passing a DatePart.CENTURY value as an argument.

SELECT century(DATE '2020-02-03');
create.select(century(Date.valueOf("2020-02-03"))).fetch();

The result being

+---------+
| century |
+---------+
|      21 |
+---------+

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

century(Date.valueOf("2020-02-03"))

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Access

(cdec(((sgn(datepart('yyyy', #2020/02/03 00:00:00#)) * (abs(datepart('yyyy', #2020/02/03 00:00:00#)) + 99)) / 100)) - (((sgn(datepart('yyyy', #2020/02/03 00:00:00#)) * (abs(datepart('yyyy', #2020/02/03 00:00:00#)) + 99)) / 100) < cdec(((sgn(datepart('yyyy', #2020/02/03 00:00:00#)) * (abs(datepart('yyyy', #2020/02/03 00:00:00#)) + 99)) / 100))))

ASE, Sybase

floor(((sign(datepart(yy, '2020-02-03 00:00:00.0')) * (abs(datepart(yy, '2020-02-03 00:00:00.0')) + 99)) / 100))

Aurora MySQL, CockroachDB, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, Redshift, Snowflake, Teradata, Trino, Vertica

floor(((sign(extract(YEAR FROM TIMESTAMP '2020-02-03 00:00:00.0')) * (abs(extract(YEAR FROM TIMESTAMP '2020-02-03 00:00:00.0')) + 99)) / 100))

Aurora Postgres, Postgres, YugabyteDB

extract(CENTURY FROM TIMESTAMP '2020-02-03 00:00:00.0')

BigQuery

floor(((sign(extract(YEAR FROM DATETIME '2020-02-03 00:00:00.0')) * (abs(extract(YEAR FROM DATETIME '2020-02-03 00:00:00.0')) + 99)) / 100))

ClickHouse

floor(((sign(extract(YEAR FROM TIMESTAMP '2020-02-03 00:00:00')) * (abs(extract(YEAR FROM TIMESTAMP '2020-02-03 00:00:00')) + 99)) / 100))

DB2

floor(((sign(YEAR(TIMESTAMP '2020-02-03 00:00:00.0')) * (abs(YEAR(TIMESTAMP '2020-02-03 00:00:00.0')) + 99)) / 100))

Derby

floor(((sign(YEAR(TIMESTAMP('2020-02-03 00:00:00.0'))) * (abs(YEAR(TIMESTAMP('2020-02-03 00:00:00.0'))) + 99)) / 100))

Informix

floor(((sign(YEAR(DATETIME(2020-02-03 00:00:00.0) YEAR TO FRACTION)) * (abs(YEAR(DATETIME(2020-02-03 00:00:00.0) YEAR TO FRACTION)) + 99)) / 100))

MemSQL

floor(((sign(extract(YEAR FROM {ts '2020-02-03 00:00:00.0'})) * (abs(extract(YEAR FROM {ts '2020-02-03 00:00:00.0'})) + 99)) / 100))

SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer

floor(((sign(datepart(yy, CAST('2020-02-03 00:00:00.0' AS DATETIME2))) * (abs(datepart(yy, CAST('2020-02-03 00:00:00.0' AS DATETIME2))) + 99)) / 100))

SQLite

floor(((CASE
  WHEN CAST(strftime('%Y', '2020-02-03 00:00:00.0') AS int) > 0 THEN 1
  WHEN CAST(strftime('%Y', '2020-02-03 00:00:00.0') AS int) < 0 THEN -1
  WHEN CAST(strftime('%Y', '2020-02-03 00:00:00.0') AS int) = 0 THEN 0
END * (abs(CAST(strftime('%Y', '2020-02-03 00:00:00.0') AS int)) + 99)) / 100))
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