Get month and year from a datetime in SQL Server 2005

Question

I need the month+year from the datetime in SQL Server like \'Jan 2008\'. I\'m grouping the query by month, year. I\'ve searched and found functions like datepart, convert, e

Answer 1

Beginning with SQL Server 2012, you can use:

SELECT FORMAT(@date, 'yyyyMM')

Answer 2

The question is about SQL Server 2005, many of the answers here are for later version SQL Server.

select convert (varchar(7), getdate(),20)
--Typical output 2015-04

SQL Server 2005 does not have date function which was introduced in SQL Server 2008

Answer 3

In SQL server 2012, below can be used

select FORMAT(getdate(), 'MMM yyyy')

This gives exact "Jun 2016"

Answer 4

I had the same problem and after looking around I found this:

SELECT DATENAME(yyyy, date) AS year
FROM Income
GROUP BY DATENAME(yyyy, date)

It's working great!

Answer 5

Converting the date to the first of the month allows you to Group By and Order By a single attribute, and it's faster in my experience.

declare @mytable table(mydate datetime)
declare @date datetime
set @date = '19000101'
while @date < getdate() begin
    insert into @mytable values(@date)
    set @date = dateadd(day,1,@date)
end

select count(*) total_records from @mytable

select dateadd(month,datediff(month,0,mydate),0) first_of_the_month, count(*) cnt
from @mytable
group by dateadd(month,datediff(month,0,mydate),0)

Answer 6

The following works perfectly! I just used it, try it out.

date_format(date,'%Y-%c')