Compare current date with stored datetime using month an year only - sql

Question

Using SQL Server 2005 I have a field that contains a datetime value.
What I am trying to do is create 2 queries:
Compare to see if stored datetime is of the same month+year as current date
Compare to see if stored datetime is of the same year as current date
There is probably a simple solution but I keep hitting brick walls using various samples I can find, any thoughts?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Compare the parts of the date:
WHERE YEAR( columnName ) = YEAR( getDate() )

Answer 2

While the other answers will work, they all suffer from the same problem: they apply a transformation to the column and therefore will never utilize an index on that column.
To search the date without a transformation, you need a couple built-in functions and some math. Example below:
--create a table to hold our example values
create table #DateSearch
(
TheDate datetime not null
)
insert into #DateSearch (TheDate)
--today
select getdate()
union all
--a month in advance
select dateadd(month, 1, getdate())
union all
--a year in advance
select dateadd(year, 1, getdate())
go
--declare variables to make things a little easier to see
declare #StartDate datetime, #EndDate datetime
--search for "same month+year as current date"
select #StartDate = dateadd(month, datediff(month, 0, getdate()), 0), #EndDate = dateadd(month, datediff(month, 0, getdate()) + 1, 0)
select #StartDate [StartDate], #EndDate [EndDate], TheDate from #DateSearch
where TheDate >= #StartDate and TheDate < #EndDate
--search for "same year as current date"
select #StartDate = dateadd(year, datediff(year, 0, getdate()), 0), #EndDate = dateadd(year, datediff(year, 0, getdate()) + 1, 0)
select #StartDate [StartDate], #EndDate [EndDate], TheDate from #DateSearch
where TheDate >= #StartDate and TheDate < #EndDate
What the statement does to avoid the transformations, is find all values greater-than or equal-to the beginning of the current time period (month or year) AND all values less-than the beginning of the next (invalid) time period. This solves our index problem and also mitigates any issues related to 3ms rounding in the DATETIME type.

Answer 3

SELECT * FROM atable
WHERE
YEAR( adate ) = YEAR( GETDATE() )
AND
MONTH( adate ) = MONTH( GETDATE() )

Answer 4

It sounds to me like DATEDIFF is exactly what you need:
-- #1 same month and year
SELECT *
FROM your_table
WHERE DATEDIFF(month, your_column, GETDATE()) = 0
-- #2 same year
SELECT *
FROM your_table
WHERE DATEDIFF(year, your_column, GETDATE()) = 0

Answer 5

The datepart function lets you pull the bits you need:
declare #d1 as datetime
declare #d2 as datetime
if datepart(yy, #d1) = datepart(yy, #d2) and datepart(mm, #d1) = datepart(mm, #d2) begin
print 'same'
end

Answer 6

You can use something like this
a)
select *
from table
where MONTH(field) = MONTH(GetDATE())
and YEAR(field) = YEAR(GetDATE())
b)
select *
from table
where YEAR(field) = YEAR(GetDATE())