SQL NOW () function
NOW () function
NOW () function returns the current system date and time.
SQL NOW () syntax
SELECT NOW() FROM table_name;
The demo database
In this tutorial, we will use w3big sample database.
The following is a selected "Websites" table data:
+----+--------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+ | id | name | url | alexa | country | +----+--------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+ | 1 | Google | https://www.google.cm/ | 1 | USA | | 2 | 淘宝 | https://www.taobao.com/ | 13 | CN | | 3 | 本教程 | http://www.w3big.com/ | 4689 | CN | | 4 | 微博 | http://weibo.com/ | 20 | CN | | 5 | Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/ | 3 | USA | | 7 | stackoverflow | http://stackoverflow.com/ | 0 | IND | +----+---------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+
SQL NOW () examples
The following SQL statement select name, url, and today's date from the "Websites" table:
Examples
SELECT name, url, Now() AS date
FROM Websites;
FROM Websites;
Execute the above SQL output results are as follows: