Get month and year from a datetime in SQL Server 2005

Question

I need the month+year from the datetime in SQL Server like \'Jan 2008\'. I\'m grouping the query by month, year. I\'ve searched and found functions like datepart, convert, e

Answer 1

Funny, I was just playing around writing this same query out in SQL Server and then LINQ.

SELECT 
    DATENAME(mm, article.Created) AS Month, 
    DATENAME(yyyy, article.Created) AS Year, 
    COUNT(*) AS Total 
FROM Articles AS article 
GROUP BY 
    DATENAME(mm, article.Created), 
    DATENAME(yyyy, article.Created) 
ORDER BY Month, Year DESC

It produces the following ouput (example).

Month | Year | Total

January | 2009 | 2