How to get a list of months between 2 given dates using a query?

Question

I have 2 dates, say 28-Mar-2011 and 29-Jun-2011. I need an sql query that will display the months between these 2 dates including the months containing the dates, ie. June,

Answer 1

You can use the function MONTHS_BETWEEN

SELECT MOD( TRUNC( MONTHS_BETWEEN( '2011-07-29', '2011-03-28' ) ), 12 ) as MONTHS
FROM DUAL

Output

    MONTHS
----------
         4