![MINUTE function [Date and time]](arrow-left.gif){kind=icon}
![MOD function [Numeric]](arrow-right.gif){kind=icon}
Returns the number of minutes since an arbitrary date and time, the number of whole minutes between two specified times, or adds the specified integer-expression number of minutes to a time.
MINUTES ( datetime-expression | datetime-expression, datetime-expression | datetime-expression, integer-expression )
datetime-expression A date and time.
integer-expression The number of minutes to be added to the datetime-expression. If integer-expression is negative, the appropriate number of minutes are subtracted from the date/time. If you supply an integer expression, the datetime-expression must be explicitly cast as a datetime data type.
For information on casting data types, see “CAST function [Data type conversion]”.
The following statement returns the value 1051125487:
SELECT MINUTES( '1998-07-13 06:07:12' ) FROM iq_dummy
The following statement returns the value 240, to signify the difference between the two times:
SELECT MINUTES( '1999-07-13 06:07:12', '1999-07-13 10:07:12' ) FROM iq_dummy
The following statement returns the datetime value 1999-05-12 21:10:07.000:
SELECT MINUTES( CAST( '1999-05-12 21:05:07' AS DATETIME ), 5) FROM iq_dummy
The second syntax returns the number of whole minutes from the first date/time to the second date/time. The number might be negative.
