How can I get the month number (not month name) from a date in SQL Server?

Question

How can I get the month number in sql? I use the following code but it returns the month name.

SELECT DATENAME(mm, GETDATE())

Answer 1

You can also use this to pad the month number

SELECT RIGHT('00' + RTRIM( CAST( DATEPART( MONTH, GETDATE() ) AS varchar(2)) ) , 2)