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

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 I input till today.
I know I can do this in a loop but I was wondering if it is possible to do this in a series selects?
Year Month
---- -----
2010 1
2010 2
2010 3
2010 4
2010 5
2010 6
2010 7
and so on.

Answer 1

Gosh folks... using a "counting recursive CTE" or "rCTE" is as bad or worse than using a loop. Please see the following article for why I say that.
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/74118/
Here's one way to do it without any RBAR including the "hidden RBAR" of a counting rCTE.
--===== Declare and preset some obviously named variables
DECLARE #StartDate DATETIME,
#EndDate DATETIME
;
SELECT #StartDate = '2010-01-14', --We'll get the month for both of these
#EndDate = '2020-12-05' --dates and everything in between
;
WITH
cteDates AS
(--==== Creates a "Tally Table" structure for months to add to start date
-- calulated by the difference in months between the start and end date.
-- Then adds those numbers to the start of the month of the start date.
SELECT TOP (DATEDIFF(mm,#StartDate,#EndDate) + 1)
MonthDate = DATEADD(mm,DATEDIFF(mm,0,#StartDate)
+ (ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY (SELECT NULL)) -1),0)
FROM sys.all_columns ac1
CROSS JOIN sys.all_columns ac2
)
--===== Slice each "whole month" date into the desired display values.
SELECT [Year] = YEAR(MonthDate),
[Month] = MONTH(MonthDate)
FROM cteDates
;

Answer 2

I know this is an old question, but I'm mildly horrified at the complexity of some of the answers. Using a CTE is definitely the simplest way to go for selecting these values:
WITH months(dt) AS
(SELECT getdate() dt
UNION ALL
SELECT dateadd(month, -1, dt)
FROM months)
SELECT
top (datediff(month, '2017-07-01' /* start date */, getdate()) + 1)
YEAR(months.dt) yr, MONTH(months.dt) mnth
FROM months
OPTION (maxrecursion 0);
Just slap in whichever start date you'd like in place of the '2017-07-01' above and you're good to go with an efficient and easily-integrated solution.
Edit: Jeff Moden's answer quite effectively advocates against using rCTEs. However, in this case it appears to be a case of premature optimization - we're talking about 10's of records in all likelihood, and even if you span back to 1900 from today, it's still a minuscule hit. Using rCTEs to achieve code maintainability seems to be worth the trade if the expected result set is small.

Answer 3

You can use something like this: Link
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#;

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

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 6

---Here is a version that gets the month end dates typically used for accounting purposes
DECLARE #StartDate datetime;
DECLARE #EndDate datetime;
SET #StartDate = '2010-1-1';
SET #EndDate = '2020-12-31';
--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(d,-1,DateAdd(m,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#;

Answer 7

DECLARE #Date1 DATE
DECLARE #Date2 DATE
SET #Date1 = '20130401'
SET #Date2 = DATEADD(MONTH, 83, #Date1)
SELECT DATENAME(MONTH, #Date1) "Month", MONTH(#Date1) "Month Number", YEAR(#Date1) "Year"
INTO #Month
WHILE (#Date1 < #Date2)
BEGIN
SET #Date1 = DATEADD(MONTH, 1, #Date1)
INSERT INTO #Month
SELECT DATENAME(MONTH, #Date1) "Month", MONTH(#Date1) "Month Number", YEAR(#Date1) "Year"
END
SELECT * FROM #Month
ORDER BY [Year], [Month Number]
DROP TABLE #Month

Answer 8

declare #date1 datetime,
#date2 datetime,
#date datetime,
#month integer,
#nm_bulan varchar(20)
create table #month_tmp
( bulan integer null, keterangan varchar(20) null )
select #date1 = '2000-01-01',
#date2 = '2000-12-31'
select #month = month(#date1)
while (#month < 13)
Begin
IF #month = 1
Begin
SELECT #date = CAST( CONVERT(VARCHAR(25),DATEADD(dd,-(DAY(DATEADD(mm,0,#date1))-1),DATEADD(mm,0,#date1)),111) + ' 00:00:00' as DATETIME )
End
ELSE
Begin
SELECT #date = CAST( CONVERT(VARCHAR(25),DATEADD(dd,-(DAY(DATEADD(mm,#month -1,#date1))-1),DATEADD(mm,#month -1,#date1)),111) + ' 00:00:00' as DATETIME )
End
select #nm_bulan = DATENAME(MM, #date)
insert into #month_tmp
select #month as nilai, #nm_bulan as nama
select #month = #month + 1
End
select * from #month_tmp
drop table #month_tmp
go