How to group by month from Date field using sql

Question

How can I group only by month from a date field (and not group by day)?

Here is what my date field looks like:

2012-05-01

Here is m

Answer 1

By Adding MONTH(date_column) in GROUP BY.

SELECT Closing_Date, Category,  COUNT(Status)TotalCount
FROM   MyTable
WHERE  Closing_Date >= '2012-02-01' AND Closing_Date <= '2012-12-31'
AND    Defect_Status1 IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY MONTH(Closing_Date), Category