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How To Get Month From Date in SQL Server

MONTH() function is used to get month from the date provided in the MONTH() function. It gives the single MONTH result in positive integer between first month of the year to last month of the year.

General Syntax is as follows:

SELECT MONTH(DateParameter)

Get month from GETDATE() Function

We can get month from GETDATE() function which gives the month in integer from the current date.

SELECT MONTH(GETDATE()) AS MonthFromGetDate

Output

Month from getdate function

Get month from date provided as string in single quotes

We can get month from date provided as string in single quotes which gives the month in integer.

SELECT MONTH('2022/01/31') AS MonthFromDate

Output

Get Month from string date

Get month from table Column

We can get month from table having DATETIME data type. To get the month from the table column, first we create a table and insert some rows and then we will get the month from that particular column.

USE HR
GO
CREATE TABLE tblEmployee
(
    EmpID INT PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
    EmpName VARCHAR(20),
    EmpGender VARCHAR(10),
    EmpAge INT,
    EmpSalary INT,
    EmpJoiningDate DATETIME
)
GO

Let’s insert some records into tblEmployee table.

USE HR
GO
INSERT INTO tblEmployee
VALUES
    (1,'Simon','Male',25,25000,'2015-01-01 22:04:49.400'),
    (2,'Dave','Male',29,15000,'2016-03-25 20:04:55.400'),
    (3,'Sara','Female',35,20000,'2017-05-01 18:04:35.400'),
    (4,'Julia','Female',36,35000,'2018-01-10 15:03:45.400'),
    (5,'Sam','Male',32,35000,'2020-03-20 10:02:25.400')
GO

Below is the result of records of table tblEmployee.

Day function table data

Now, below is the query to get month from the EmpJoiningDate column of the table tblEmployee.

USE HR
GO
SELECT
    EmpName,
    EmpGender,
    EmpSalary,
    MONTH(EmpJoiningDate) AS JoiningMonth
FROM tblEmployee
GO

Output

Get month from tblEmployee table

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