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

I needed an answer to this a couple of days ago. I found another solution I liked more:

select to_char(which_month, 'Mon-yyyy') month
from
(
    select
        add_months(to_date(:start_date,'mm-yyyy'), rownum-1) which_month
    from
        all_objects
    where
        rownum <= months_between(to_date(:end_date,'mm-yyyy'), add_months(to_date(:start_date,'mm-yyyy'), -1))
    order by
        which_month
)

You could of course use any format you want. I 'union'ed and summed over another set so that I'd get the months even when they didn't have results.