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

You can do this by using Year(), Month() Day() and datepart().

In you example this would be:

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 Year(Closing_Date), Month(Closing_Date), Category