Question

Can anyone help with this problem, I’m trying to select the last 12 month of dates from table, then change the format so that the date appears as:

Feb 2013

Jan 2013 etc

I can change the format to above, but that changes the date to string which then makes it impossible to order DESC.

How can I keep the above format, and still order by desc

SELECT DISTINCT TOP 12 
--CONVERT(date, NewsDatePosted, 120) AS ArchiveTravelNewsByMonth
--CONVERT(CHAR(4), NewsDatePosted, 100) + CONVERT(CHAR(4), NewsDatePosted, 120) AS MY
--DatePart(Year,NewsDatePosted) AS YearPosted 
--datename(month,NewsDatePosted) + ' ' + DatePart(Year,NewsDatePosted) AS YearPosted
FROM dbo.at_News
order by ArchiveTravelNewsByMonth DESC

Thanks

George

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SELECT DISTINCT TOP 12 SUBSTRING(CONVERT(VARCHAR(11), NewsDatePosted, 113), 4, 8)
AS ArchiveTravelNewsByMonth,
NewsDatePosted
FROM dbo.at_News
ORDER BY CONVERT(DATETIME, CONVERT(CHAR(4), NewsDatePosted, 100) + CONVERT(CHAR(4), NewsDatePosted, 120))

Answer 1

Please try by adding an order by clause and inner select like

SELECT 
    ArchiveTravelNewsByMonth, 
    NewsDatePosted
FROM(
    SELECT DISTINCT TOP 12 SUBSTRING(CONVERT(VARCHAR(11), NewsDatePosted, 113), 4, 8) AS ArchiveTravelNewsByMonth,
        NewsDatePosted
    FROM dbo.at_News)x
ORDER BY CONVERT(DATETIME, ArchiveTravelNewsByMonth)