t-sql select get all Months within a range of years

Question

I need a select to return Month and year Within a specified date range where I would input the start year and month and the select would return month and year from the date

Answer 1

Code below generates the values for the range between 21 Jul 2013 and 15 Jan 2014. I usually use it in SSRS reports for generating lookup values for the Month parameter.

declare
    @from date = '20130721',
    @to date = '20140115';

with m as (
select * from (values ('Jan', '01'), ('Feb', '02'),('Mar', '03'),('Apr', '04'),('May', '05'),('Jun', '06'),('Jul', '07'),('Aug', '08'),('Sep', '09'),('Oct', '10'),('Nov', '11'),('Dec', '12')) as t(v, c)),

y as (select cast(YEAR(getdate()) as nvarchar(4)) [v] union all select cast(YEAR(getdate())-1 as nvarchar(4)))

select m.v + ' ' + y.v [value_field], y.v + m.c [label_field]
from m
cross join y
where y.v + m.c between left(convert(nvarchar, @from, 112),6) and left(convert(nvarchar, @to, 112),6)
order by y.v + m.c desc

Results:

value_field     label_field
---------------------------
Jan 2014        201401
Dec 2013        201312
Nov 2013        201311
Oct 2013        201310
Sep 2013        201309
Aug 2013        201308
Jul 2013        201307