display month name instead of month number in mysql

Question

Write a query to display the name of the month and the number of events scheduled in each month in the year 2013, sorted by month. Give an alias to the month name as month_name

Answer 1

You should use MONTHNAME(date) - something like this:

select MONTHNAME(date),COUNT(*) from event where year(date)=2013 group by MONTH(date)