Date arithmetics

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Group by day of the week (using arithmetic).

schema:gisq

We can use modular arithmetic to calculate the day of the week.

We happen to know that 20 May 1962 was a Sunday. We calculate the number of days from that day and take mod 7 value. This tells us the day of the week: 0 is Sunday, 1 is Monday...

SELECT MOD(wk - TO_DATE('1962-05-20','YYYY-MM-DD'),7),
       COUNT(song)
  FROM gisq.totp
GROUP BY MOD(wk - TO_DATE('1962-05-20','YYYY-MM-DD'),7)
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