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Asked: 2026-05-14T03:09:01+00:00

I have to come up with a way to get data from a SQL

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I have to come up with a way to get data from a SQL server table given it’s month

There’s a smalldatetime type field called “date” in the “events” table and a field from it looks like this:

29/01/2003 17:00:00

It should be one among those that appear in the gridview when I select jan/03 in a given DropDownList control in ASP.NET.

What would be the best way to do this?
Assuming I only want to go as long as 10 years to the past, wouldn’t making a dictionary be a good way?
How do I change it so the top month is always the current, and each month another options appeaars in the dropdown ?

It should be a common issue, so that shall not be a trick, but I want a good and clean way of doing this, and (since I’m new to asp.net) I myself would come up with something messy after a long time trying.

So what I want is:
1) Select
2) Best way of populating DropDownList (with the current month always at the top)
3) Best way to bind the DropDownList user-friendly way of writing months to the select query-friendly way of writing datetimes

Info:
ASP.NET, (C# or VB.NET), SQL Server 2005

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  1. Editorial Team

    Thank you guys for the answers, I’ve used one that looks like pcampbell’s (+1 to him):

    SELECT * FROM whatevertable where CONVERT(CHAR(7),DataHoraInicio,120) = '2002-10'

    (this gets every registry from october 2002)

    I don’t see any set back for this method, in fact, it’s working flawlessly

    Thanks again!

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