Months between two dates

Question

Is it possible to get month names between two dates in SQl

ie, 2011-05-01 And 2011-08-01 are the inputs I just w

Answer 1

You can do this with a recursive CTE, by building up a table of dates, and getting the month name from each:

declare @start DATE = '2011-05-01'
declare @end DATE = '2011-08-01'

;with months (date)
AS
(
    SELECT @start
    UNION ALL
    SELECT DATEADD(month,1,date)
    from months
    where DATEADD(month,1,date)<=@end
)
select Datename(month,date) from months

Answer 2

Try this:

declare 
       @sd date=getdate(),
       @ld date='2016-01-01'

select 
     Datename(month,dateadd(month,number,GETDATE())), 
     number
from master.dbo.spt_values 
where type='p' 
     and dateadd(month,number,GETDATE()) <= @ld