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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, MariaDB, MySQL
date_add(DATE '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)
ClickHouse, Exasol, H2, Oracle, Vertica
(DATE '2020-02-03' - 2)
DB2, HSQLDB
(DATE '2020-02-03' - (2) day)
Derby
CAST({fn timestampadd(SQL_TSI_DAY, -2, DATE('2020-02-03')) } AS DATE)
DuckDB
CAST(date_add(DATE '2020-02-03', INTERVAL 1 DAY * -2) AS DATE)
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)
MemSQL
date_add({d '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')
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