How to get month name from date in Presto

Question

I use Presto and I do not know the function to get MONTH's name from a date column. I can get MONTH number using MONTH(<date>) function but I'm not able to get MONTH name.

I've seen ways where a list of month names is manually created and the number is matched over with the list to obtain the name. Is there a better approach to use any known function in Presto?

Solution 1

As commented, Presto provides date_format function which is compatible with MySQL one. %M will tell you the exact month name of your timestamp. For example:

SELECT date_format(timestamp '2017-11-21 12:00:00', '%M') month_name

Solution 2

Using Presto , you can also use following function: -

SELECT extract(MONTH from CURRENT_DATE) Month

And Output would look like:-

Comments

[stack_pointer is EXTINCT]

Any reason why it's a -1 for the question? I guess I've given details in the question after doing research.

[Dalton Cézane]

Please specify any code you have. From documentation, prestodb.io/docs/current/functions/datetime.html, there is the %M specifier that should do what you want.