Question

I would like to create a SQL statement to later be used in my code, that gets the date range for the current month.

Example: This is August, so the date range would be

StartDate = 08/01/11
EndDate = 08/31/11

however, if it was February

StartDate = 02/01/11
EndDate = 02/28/11

Select * 
from mytable 
where (check_date >= StartDate) AND (check_date <= EndDate)

thanks for any help you may be able to give

Answer 1

The you can find the start of this month with the months-since-zero trick. The last day of the month is one month later, minus one day:

select  dateadd(month,datediff(month,0,getdate()),0)
,       dateadd(day,-1,dateadd(month,datediff(month,-1,getdate()),0))

This prints:

1-aug-2011    31-aug-2011