MySQL QUARTER Function

MySQL Quarter is one of the Date Functions, which is used to return the quarter of the year number from a given date. This method returns integer range from 1 to 4. The basic syntax of the MySQL Quarter Function is as shown below:

QUARTER(date or expression);

TIP: This method returns 0 if the given argument is 0000-00-00. Or Say, it returns 0 if the Zero DATEPART is given.

MySQL Quarter function Example

The below shown queries help you understand the use of this method. Here, we are returning the Quarter numbers from the different date expression, and the Datetime expression.

SELECT QUARTER('2016-12-22');

SELECT QUARTER('2016-07-15');

SELECT QUARTER('2016-03-15 11:22:33');

Here, we are returning quarter of the year from the current date and time returned by the Now() and CURDATE() function.

SELECT CURDATE(), QUARTER(CURDATE());

SELECT NOW(), QUARTER(NOW());

SELECT QUARTER(CURDATE() + 20), QUARTER(NOW() + 2);

Get QUARTER from Current Date and Now Example 2

Quarter Example 2

The following MySQL query shows you what happens when we try to get the year quarter value from a date in string format. In this Date method example, we are trying to print the output from YYYYMMDD, YYMMDD, YYYYMMDDHHMMSS formats.

SELECT QUARTER(20190512);

SELECT QUARTER(750812);

SELECT QUARTER(20191112012233);

Here, we are trying to return the Quarter of the Year from an invalid dt, and zero month part. That’s why this Date method in MySQL returns NULL.

SELECT QUARTER(20190542);

SELECT QUARTER(2019-00-00);

SELECT QUARTER(CURDATE() + 45);

In this instance, we show you how to use this method on a table. Here, we are returning the month number from the HireDate column. For this MySQL Quarter function demo, we are using Workbench to write a query against the customer table.

SELECT EmpID,
       FirstName,
       LastName,
       Occupation,
       YearlyIncome,
       Sales,
       HireDate,
       QUARTER(HireDate)
 FROM customer;