extract(quarter from timestamp)

Let us now check the extract(quarter) function with the following query.

Query

default> select extract(quarter from date '2016-08-11') as quarter_month;  

Result

The above query will generate the following result.

quarter_month 
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3.0 

The query extracts a quarter of the month from the given month. The given month August comes under the third quarter of the year.