months between two dates in sql server with starting and end date of each of them in sql server

Question

i want to get months between two dates with their starting and end dates.Suppose if i enter startdate as \"2017-04-01\" and enddate as \"2017-07-31\", i want list of months

Answer 1

If this is not just a one-off report, then I would create a calendar table, and use that to "group by". This will also let you do many other date related calculations. You can find one at simple calendar or one here at Stackoverflow

Then your code could look like this:

SELECT top 10000 * FROM dbo.calendar DD
WHERE DD.TimeStampFrom>='2017-04-01' AND DD.TimeStampFrom <='2017-07-31'
AND DAY(DD.TimeStampFrom)=1