Use the following to extract year from date.
Syntax
EXTRACT ({YEAR | MONTH | DAY | HOUR | MINUTE | SECOND} FROM d)
Description
Finds and returns the value of a specified datetime field from date d.
Example
SELECT EXTRACT (YEAR FROM TO_DATE ('2010-01-04', 'YYYY-MM-DD')) "extract" FROM DUMMY; extract 2010
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Vijay