DATENAME(MONTH,GETADATE()) is returning numeric value of the month as '09'

Question

When I run the following query [SELECT DATENAME(MONTH,GETDATE())], ideally speaking it should return value as \'September\' but its returning value as \'09\'. I am running t

Answer 1

Try running:

select name ,alias, dateformat from syslanguages where langid = (select value from master..sysconfigures where comment = 'default language')

To see what language the system thinks it's using. SqlServer changes its date format based on that.