MONTH

Returns an integer that represents the month part of a specified date.

Syntax

MONTH ( date )

Arguments

date

Is an expression returning a datetime or smalldatetime value, or a character string in a date format. Use the datetime data type only for dates after January 1, 1753.

Return Types

int

Remarks

MONTH is equivalent to DATEPART(mm, date).

Always enclose datetime values in quotation marks. For earlier dates, store dates as character data.

Microsoft® SQL Server™ recognizes a variety of date styles. For more information about date and time data, see CAST and CONVERT.

Examples

This example returns the number of the month from the date 03/12/1998.

SELECT "Month Number" = MONTH('03/12/1998')
GO

Here is the result set:

Month Number 
------------ 
3

This example specifies the date as a number. Notice that SQL Server interprets 0 as January 1, 1900.

SELECT MONTH(0), DAY(0), YEAR(0)

Here is the result set.