group by and sort by datepart(month)

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group by and sort by datepart(month)

mvander

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May 2, 2004 at 6:12 pm

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I have a table that contains project information, with one column called
EndDate of DateTime data type. I am trying to create a SQL Query that
will Group By and Sort By the the year portion of the EndDate and the
month portion of the EndDate. I'm going to use the dataset to graph the
number of projects for each month. When I use the DatePart function on the
EndDate column for the month, the month is returned as an integer. So
January = 1, Feb = 2, etc. However, now when I sort on this, the sort
comes out 2004/1 (for Jan), 2004/10 (for Oct), 2004/11 (for Nov), 2004/12 (for Dec) and then
2004/2 (for Feb).
I was wondering if anyone knew how to force the DatePart function to
return a 2 place integer, with the leading 0, so that the months
will sort in the correct order? Or some other way to do this Group By and Sort By?

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Prasad Bhogadi SSCrazy Eights Points: 9235 More actions · Answer 1

I don't think there is a way to add a leading 0 to the month unless you want to use convert function and concatnate with a 0 in front, which may not makes sense if you are using it in GROUP by or for that matter ORDER BY clause, but what I am wondering is datepart will return in INT datatype so the order by sorting should not give a problem.

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Johan Bijnens SSC Guru Points: 135369 More actions · Answer 2

select year(datetimecolumn) as Year_datetimecolumn

, month(datetimecolumn) as Month_datetimecolumn

, count(*) as Counter

from mytable

group by year(datetimecolumn)

, month(datetimecolumn)

order by Year_datetimecolumn, Month_datetimecolumn

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mvander Old Hand Points: 389 More actions · Answer 3

Thanks, alzdba. I was trying to use a Convert statement with concantenation to get the year and month into one column like '2004/1'. I guess that was the error of my ways.

Caine Schneider Old Hand Points: 355 More actions · Answer 4

You could also use CONVERT(char(7), date_col, 120) to return a value such as 2004-05.

Caine