Question

I have 2 INTEGER columns like the following:

Month      Year
-----      -----
  5         2011

Is there any way to convert that to a single column VARCHAR like this: May-2011

Answer 1

I don’t know of an easy way to do this since you don’t have a date object (ie its not like youre finding the month of a timestamp), you can use a case statement but it gets long.

SELECT CASE Month
            WHEN '1' THEN 'January'
            WHEN '2' THEN 'February'
            WHEN '3' THEN 'March'
            WHEN '4' THEN 'April'
            ...
      END+'-'+Year
FROM TABLE