month

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

Syntax

month(date_expression)

Parameters

date_expression – is an expression of type datetime, smalldatetime, date, or a character string in a datetime format.

Examples

Example 1 – Returns the integer 11:
```
day("11/02/03")
----------
11
```

Usage

month(date_expression) is equivalent to datapart(mm, date_expression).

Standards

ANSI SQL – Compliance level: Transact-SQL extension.

Permissions

Any user can execute month.

Parent topic: Transact-SQL Functions

Related concepts

System and User-Defined Datatypes

Related reference

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