DATENAME(MONTH,GETADATE()) is returning numeric value of the month as '09'

Question

When I run the following query [SELECT DATENAME(MONTH,GETDATE())], ideally speaking it should return value as \'September\' but its returning value as \'09\'. I am running t

Answer 1

Hmmmm, I get "September", SqlServer 2005 9.00.3402.

Answer 2

SELECT @@LANGUAGE -> gives an Asian one?

SET LANGUAGE Japanese
SELECT DATENAME (month, GETDATE())

SET LANGUAGE us_english
SELECT DATENAME (month, GETDATE())

DATENAME depends on language, so need to change server default or your login default language...

Thank you and sayonara...

Answer 3

Nope, SELECT DATENAME(month, GETDATE()); returns September for me. I just tried it in SQL 2005 and 2008. Where are you executing this query? That may help as to why this is happening to you.

Answer 4

The only thing I can think of would be collation causing that, but I can't find any specific examples of a collation that would do that. The other possibility could be the language which also sets date format. I'm a bit mystified, but these are places to start.

Answer 5

Try running:

select name ,alias, dateformat from syslanguages where langid = (select value from master..sysconfigures where comment = 'default language')

To see what language the system thinks it's using. SqlServer changes its date format based on that.