Question

I have this code:

DATESUB(CURDATE(), INTERVAL x MONTH)

where x is in a stored procedure. However instead of finding the date x month’s ago, i need to just find out which month it was, and label it as its correct english.

For example todays month is December. If x was 2, it would return 2012/10/02. Instead of this I just want October

Answer 1

You would want to use DATE_FORMAT:

DATE_FORMAT(DATE_SUB(CURDATE(), INTERVAL x MONTH), '%M')

If you were to use:

 select DATE_FORMAT(DATE_SUB(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 2 MONTH), '%M') Month

It would return October as the result

See SQL Fiddle with Demo