SQL Group by Year

Question

This is my query.

select CONVERT(varchar, cast(date as datetime), 3)
from shoptransfer 
group by year (date)

I want to group by the year pa

Answer 1

How about:

select datepart(yyyy, [date]) as [year]
from shoptransfer 
group by datepart(yyyy, [date])

Or:

select count(*) as qty, datepart(yyyy, [date]) as [year]
from shoptransfer 
group by datepart(yyyy, [date])
order by [year]

This is based on OP's command: "I want to group by year part of date (varchar) column"