Jan 28

extract with dates

Which year did we have 300 days ago?

select extract (year from sysdate-300) from dual;

What Month did we have 10 days ago?

select extract(month from sysdate-10) from dual;

What day is today?

select extract(day from sysdate) from dual;

extract with XML

extract(xml-type-instance, 'xpath-expression')
extract(xml-type-instance, 'xpath-expression', 'name-space')

extract is similar to existsNode()