Date Functions
Date functions are available in SQL depending on the options with each specific implementation. Date functions, similar to character string functions, are used to manipulate the representation of date and time data. Available date functions are often used to format the output of dates and time in an appealing format, compare date values with one another, compute intervals between dates, and so on.
The Current Date
You may have already raised the question: How do I get the current date from the database? The need to retrieve the current date from the database may originate from several situations, but the current date is normally returned either to compare to a stored date or to return the value of the current date as some sort ...
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