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This example illustrates how you can apply functions to derive day-of-week values out of a column of Datetime type:

  • WEEKDAY - returns numeric value for the day of the week for source Datetime values. See WEEKDAY Function
  • WEEKNUM - returns the numeric value for the week within the year for source Datetime values. See WEEKNUM Function.
  • DATEFORMAT - can be used to format Datetime values in many different ways. See DATEFORMAT Function.

Source:

myDate
10/30/17
10/31/17
11/1/17
11/2/17
11/3/17
11/4/17
11/5/17
11/6/17


Transformation:

The following transformation step generates a numeric value for the day of week in a new column:

Transformation Name New formula
Parameter: Formula type Single row formula
Parameter: Formula WEEKDAY (myDate)
Parameter: New column name 'weekDayNum'

The following step generates a full text version of the name of the day of the week:

Transformation Name New formula
Parameter: Formula type Single row formula
Parameter: Formula DATEFORMAT(myDate, 'EEEE')
Parameter: New column name 'weekDayNameFull'

The following step generates a three-letter abbreviation for the name of the day of the week:

Transformation Name New formula
Parameter: Formula type Single row formula
Parameter: Formula DATEFORMAT(myDate, 'EEE')
Parameter: New column name 'weekDayNameShort'

The following step generates the numeric value of the week within the year:

Transformation Name New formula
Parameter: Formula type Single row formula
Parameter: Formula WEEKNUM (myDate)
Parameter: New column name 'weekNum'

Results:

myDateweekDayNumweekDayNameFullweekDayNameShortweekNum
10/30/171MondayMon44
10/31/172TuesdayTue44
11/1/173WednesdayWed44
11/2/174ThursdayThu44
11/3/175FridayFri44
11/4/176SaturdaySat44
11/5/177SundaySun45
11/6/171MondayMon45

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