SQL query for extracting year from a date

Question

I am trying to create a query that gets only the year from selected dates. I.e. select ASOFDATE from PSASOFDATE; returns 11/15/2012, but I want only

Answer 1

just pass the columnName as parameter of YEAR

SELECT YEAR(ASOFDATE) from PSASOFDATE;

another is to use DATE_FORMAT

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(ASOFDATE, '%Y') from PSASOFDATE;

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UPDATE 1

I bet the value is varchar with the format MM/dd/YYYY, it that's the case,

SELECT YEAR(STR_TO_DATE('11/15/2012', '%m/%d/%Y'));

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LAST RESORT if all the queries fail

use SUBSTRING

SELECT SUBSTRING('11/15/2012', 7, 4)

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