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

you can do the following

SELECT DISTINCT YEAR(myDate) as [Year], MONTH(myDate) as [Month]
FROM myTable
WHERE <<appropriate criteria>>
ORDER BY [Year], [Month]

Answer 2

You can use something like this: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlazure/archive/2010/09/16/10063301.aspx

To generate the equivalent of a numbers table using date ranges.

But could you please clarify your inputs and outputs?

Do you want to input a start date, for example, '2010-5-1' and end date, for example, '2010-8-1' and have it return every month between the two? Do you want to include the start month and end month, or exclude them?

Here's some code that I wrote that will quickly generate an inclusive result of every month between two dates.

--Inputs here:
DECLARE @StartDate datetime;
DECLARE @EndDate datetime;
SET @StartDate = '2010-1-5 5:00PM';
SET @EndDate = GETDATE();

--Procedure here:
  WITH RecursiveRowGenerator (Row#, Iteration) AS (
       SELECT 1, 1
        UNION ALL
       SELECT Row# + Iteration, Iteration * 2
         FROM RecursiveRowGenerator
        WHERE Iteration * 2 < CEILING(SQRT(DATEDIFF(MONTH, @StartDate, @EndDate)+1))
        UNION ALL
       SELECT Row# + (Iteration * 2), Iteration * 2
         FROM RecursiveRowGenerator
        WHERE Iteration * 2 < CEILING(SQRT(DATEDIFF(MONTH, @StartDate, @EndDate)+1))
     )
     , SqrtNRows AS (
       SELECT *
         FROM RecursiveRowGenerator
        UNION ALL
       SELECT 0, 0
     )
SELECT TOP(DATEDIFF(MONTH, @StartDate, @EndDate)+1) 
       DATEADD(month, DATEDIFF(month, 0, @StartDate) + A.Row# * POWER(2,CEILING(LOG(SQRT(DATEDIFF(MONTH, @StartDate, @EndDate)+1))/LOG(2))) + B.Row#, 0)  Row#
  FROM SqrtNRows A, SqrtNRows B
 ORDER BY A.Row#, B.Row#;