Functions for date datatype

Dear ALL...
Someone know some function for query months, years, days from date columns....???
Example for MSSQL...select datepart(date collumn) from table....select month(date column) from table....etc
I´m studing Oracle alone to get a OCP (OCA first)......the bad thing...I Work with the MSSQL.. (to me, Oracle is the best RDBMS)...
Thks
Daniel

Hi Daniel,
Well I saw that you come from Brazil and as you are studying Oracle by yourself, take a look on my blog http://mportes.blogspot.com - There you're going to find a lot of technical stuff in Portuguese. For intance you might interest on this
http://mportes.blogspot.com/2005/11/trabalhando-com-intervalos-de-datas.html
About your question, you can start with
SQL> select to_char(sysdate, 'Mon') from dual;
TO_
May
1 row selected.
SQL> select to_char(sysdate, 'Month') from dual;
TO_CHAR(S
May
1 row selected.
SQL> select to_char(sysdate, 'Month', 'nls_date_language=portuguese') from dual;
TO_CHAR(S
Maio
1 row selected.To find more information, I suggest you stop by
http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/functions180.htm#SQLRF06129
and try out http://tahiti.oracle.com there you will find all docs from Oracle (free).
And so on...

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