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

select 
datepart(month,getdate()) -- integer (1,2,3...)
,datepart(year,getdate()) -- integer
,datename(month,getdate()) -- string ('September',...)

Answer 2

cast(cast(sq.QuotaDate as date) as varchar(7))

gives "2006-04" format