Returns an integer that represents the month in the datepart of a specified date.
month(date_expression)
is an expression of type datetime, smalldatetime, date, or a character string in a datetime format.
Returns the integer 11:
day("11/02/03") ---------- 11
month(date_expression) is equivalent to datepart(mm, date_expression).
ANSI SQL – Compliance level: Transact-SQL extension.
Any user can execute month.