Question

I have a table Table1 with a column Column1 like this:

Column1

Dec-2010
Dec-2011
Feb-2011
Apr-2011
Jul-2011
May-2011
Aug-2011
Oct-2011
Sept-2011
Jan-2011
Mar-2011
Jun-2011
Nov-2011
Jan-2012

I want extract the data by using SELECT command as follows.

Column1

Dec-2010
Jan-2011
Feb-2011
Mar-2011
Apr-2011
May-2011
Jun-2011
Jul-2011
Aug-2011
Sep-2011
Oct-2011
Nov-2011
Dec-2011
Jan-2012

Kindly help me by providing a SELECT query to retrieve the data as shown above.

Answer 1

Convert your column to datetime and order by that.

select Column1
from YourTable
order by convert(datetime, left(Column1, 3)+' 01, '+right(Column1, 4), 107)