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Derives the full name from a Datetime value of the corresponding weekday as a String. Source value can be a reference to a column containing Datetime values or a literal.

NOTE: If the source Datetime value does not include a valid input for this function, a missing value is returned.

weekdayname(MyDate)

Output: Returns the weekday name from the MyDate column.

weekdayname(datetime_col)

Argument	Required?	Data Type	Description
datetime_col	Y	datetime	Name of column whose weekday name values are to be computed

datetime_col

Name of the column whose weekday name value is to be computed.

Missing values for this function in the source data result in missing values in the output.
Multiple columns and wildcards are not supported.

Required?	Data Type	Example Value
Yes	Datetime	`myDate`

datetime_col

Example - Date element functions