ADD_MONTHS

Syntax

Purpose

ADD_MONTHS returns the date d plus n months. The argument n can be any integer. If d is the last day of the month or if the resulting month has fewer days than the day component of d, then the result is the last day of the resulting month. Otherwise, the result has the same day component as d.

Example

SELECT TO_CHAR(
     ADD_MONTHS(hiredate,1),
     'DD-MON-YYYY') "Next month"
     FROM emp 
     WHERE ename = 'SMITH';

Next Month
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17-JAN-1981