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Getting only Month and Year from SQL DATE

I need to access only Month.Year from Date field in SQL Server.

Solution

  • As well as the suggestions given already, there is one other possiblity I can infer from your question:
    - You still want the result to be a date
    - But you want to 'discard' the Days, Hours, etc
    - Leaving a year/month only date field 

    SELECT
   DATEADD(MONTH, DATEDIFF(MONTH, 0, <dateField>), 0) AS [year_month_date_field]
FROM
   <your_table>

    This gets the number of whole months from a base date (0) and then adds them to that base date. Thus rounding Down to the month in which the date is in.

    NOTE: In SQL Server 2008, You will still have the TIME attached as 00:00:00.000 This is not exactly the same as "removing" any notation of day and time altogether. Also the DAY set to the first. e.g. 2009-10-01 00:00:00.000