How do I extract Month and Year in a MySQL date and compare them?

Question

How do I extract the month and date from a mySQL date and compare it to another date?

I found this MONTH() but it only gets the month. I looking for month and year.<

Answer 1

While it was discussed in the comments, there isn't an answer containing it yet, so it can be easy to miss. DATE_FORMAT works really well and is flexible to handle many different patterns.

DATE_FORMAT(date,'%Y%m')

To put it in a query:

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(test_date,'%Y%m') AS date FROM test_table;