SQL Extract Year

Pulls just the year out of a date — the most common single field to extract.

What & Why

EXTRACT(YEAR FROM date_column) returns the calendar year as a plain integer — useful for grouping records by year, or filtering to a specific one.

See How It Works

BUSINESS QUESTION

Marketing wants campaign counts by start year.

id	name	channel	spend	start_date	end_date	status	target_segment
1	Spring Launch	google_ads	55000.00	2024-01-15	2024-03-31	active	smb
2	Retention Webinar	email	45000.00	2024-02-10	2024-04-15	active	enterprise
3	Finance Retargeting	linkedin	50000.00	2024-03-12	2024-05-31	active	enterprise
4	Enterprise Search	google_ads	60000.00	2024-04-01	2024-06-30	active	enterprise

EXAMPLE QUERY

SELECT
  EXTRACT(YEAR FROM start_date)::int AS start_year,
  COUNT(*) AS campaign_count
FROM marketing.campaigns
GROUP BY start_year
ORDER BY start_year;

RESULT — exact output from the displayed Queryflo rows

start_year	campaign_count
2024	4

All four displayed campaigns start in 2024.

Now You Try

Practice this concept

Marketing wants campaign counts by start year.

Available schema

marketing

Prefix tables with marketing.table_name.

start_yearcampaign_count

marketing.campaigns

Column	Type
id	integer
name	text
channel	text
spend	numeric
start_date	date
end_date	date
status	text
target_segment	text
legacy_id	text

query.sql

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