How to create MySQL function to create a new column of quarter by processing existing column of date? -
i have column date shown below:
+-----------+ | date | +-----------+ | 20140611 | | 20150119 | | 20150922 | | 20160310 | +-----------+
it's string in yyyymmdd
format.
i want create new column named quarter
shown below:
+-----------+-------------+ | date | quarter | +-----------+-------------+ | 20140611 | q2-2014 | | 20150119 | q1-2015 | | 20150922 | q3-2015 | | 20160310 | q3-2016 | +-----------+-------------+
where quarter
indicates quarter in corresponding date
falls.
this example purpose, want know how can write function can applied on single column of table create new column after pre-defined processing.
use quarter function
select `date`, quarter(`date`) quarter my_table ;
otherwise if looking user defined function can use
create function hello_world(my_text text) returns text language sql -- element optional , omitted begin return concat('hello ', my_text); end; $$ delimiter ;
then
select hello_world('earth');
return hello earth
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/create-function-udf.html
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