Convert month name to month number in SQL Server

Question

In T-SQL what is the best way to convert a month name into a number?

E.g:

\'January\' -> 1
\'February\' -> 2
\'March\' -> 3

Answer 1

You can try sth like this, if you have month_name which is string datetype.After converting, you can feel free to order by Month.

For example, your table like this:

 month
 Dec
 Jan
 Feb
 Nov
 Mar
  .
  .
  .

My syntax is:

 Month(cast(month+'1 2016' as datetime))