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 # DAY (Transact-SQL)
 [!INCLUDE[tsql-appliesto-ss2008-all-md](../../includes/tsql-appliesto-ss2008-all-md.md)]
 
-Returns an integer representing the day (day of the month) of the specified *date*.
+This function returns an integer that represents the day (day of the month) of the specified *date*.
   
-For an overview of all [!INCLUDE[tsql](../../includes/tsql-md.md)] date and time data types and functions, see [Date and Time Data Types and Functions &#40;Transact-SQL&#41;](../../t-sql/functions/date-and-time-data-types-and-functions-transact-sql.md).
+See [Date and Time Data Types and Functions &#40;Transact-SQL&#41;](../../t-sql/functions/date-and-time-data-types-and-functions-transact-sql.md) for an overview of all [!INCLUDE[tsql](../../includes/tsql-md.md)] date and time data types and functions.
   
 ![Topic link icon](../../database-engine/configure-windows/media/topic-link.gif "Topic link icon") [Transact-SQL Syntax Conventions](../../t-sql/language-elements/transact-sql-syntax-conventions-transact-sql.md)
   
@@ -46,24 +46,33 @@ DAY ( date )
   
 ## Arguments  
 *date*  
-Is an expression that can be resolved to a **time**, **date**, **smalldatetime**, **datetime**, **datetime2**, or **datetimeoffset** value. The *date* argument can be an expression, column expression, user-defined variable or string literal.
+An expression that resolves to one of the following data types:
+
++ **date**
++ **datetime**
++ **datetimeoffset**
++ **datetime2** 
++ **smalldatetime**
++ **time**
+
+For *date*, `DAY` will accept a column expression, expression, string literal, or user-defined variable.
   
 ## Return Type  
 **int**
   
 ## Return Value  
 DAY returns the same value as [DATEPART](../../t-sql/functions/datepart-transact-sql.md) (**day**, *date*).
   
-If *date* contains only a time part, the return value is 1, the base day.
+If *date* contains only a time part, `DAY` will return 1 - the base day.
   
 ## Examples  
-The following statement returns `30`. This is the number of the day.
+This statement returns `30` - the number of the day itself.
   
 ```sql
 SELECT DAY('2015-04-30 01:01:01.1234567');  
 ```  
   
-The following statement returns `1900, 1, 1`. The argument for *date* is the number `0`. [!INCLUDE[ssNoVersion](../../includes/ssnoversion-md.md)] interprets `0` as January 1, 1900.
+This statement returns `1900, 1, 1`. The *date* argument has a number value of `0`. [!INCLUDE[ssNoVersion](../../includes/ssnoversion-md.md)] interprets `0` as January 1, 1900.
   
 ```sql
 SELECT YEAR(0), MONTH(0), DAY(0);  
