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

Funny, I was just playing around writing this same query out in SQL Server and then LINQ.

SELECT 
    DATENAME(mm, article.Created) AS Month, 
    DATENAME(yyyy, article.Created) AS Year, 
    COUNT(*) AS Total 
FROM Articles AS article 
GROUP BY 
    DATENAME(mm, article.Created), 
    DATENAME(yyyy, article.Created) 
ORDER BY Month, Year DESC

It produces the following ouput (example).

Month | Year | Total

January | 2009 | 2

Answer 2

---Lalmuni Demos---
create table Users
(
userid int,date_of_birth date
)
---insert values---
insert into Users values(4,'9/10/1991')

select DATEDIFF(year,date_of_birth, getdate()) - (CASE WHEN (DATEADD(year, DATEDIFF(year,date_of_birth, getdate()),date_of_birth)) > getdate() THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) as Years, 
MONTH(getdate() - (DATEADD(year, DATEDIFF(year, date_of_birth, getdate()), date_of_birth))) - 1 as Months, 
DAY(getdate() - (DATEADD(year, DATEDIFF(year,date_of_birth, getdate()), date_of_birth))) - 1 as Days,
from users

Answer 3

That format doesn't exist. You need to do a combination of two things,

select convert(varchar(4),getdate(),100)  + convert(varchar(4),year(getdate()))

Answer 4

If you mean you want them back as a string, in that format;

SELECT 
  CONVERT(CHAR(4), date_of_birth, 100) + CONVERT(CHAR(4), date_of_birth, 120) 
FROM customers

Here are the other format options

Answer 5

How about this?

Select DateName( Month, getDate() ) + ' ' + DateName( Year, getDate() )

Answer 6

Yes, you can use datename(month,intime) to get the month in text.