May 9, 2019 at 12:00 am
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May 9, 2019 at 5:36 am
That is strange.
reading it, it seems it would sort by DATENAME(Month), but testing shows otherwise.
Interesting question, thanks Steve
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May 9, 2019 at 1:48 pm
Thanks for this interesting T-SQL question Steve.
May 9, 2019 at 2:16 pm
nice and easy, cheers Steve
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May 9, 2019 at 3:57 pm
This was interesting to me as well when I stumbled on it.
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May 9, 2019 at 4:11 pm
Arg! I clicked the wrong one! I got so excited because I new that it would list it by month name yet be in the proper order (month number). This is a pretty cool trick I learned from Jeff Moden!
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May 9, 2019 at 5:52 pm
Great question... I would have used the following sort instead for month number:
ORDER BY DATEPART(mm,oh.OrderDate)
May 9, 2019 at 6:02 pm
I thought the same thing initially, but it won't work because DATEPART(mm,oh.OrderDate) is not part of the GROUP BY whereas DATENAME(mm,oh.OrderDate) is.
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May 9, 2019 at 8:26 pm
Ahhh yes... Absolutely right... Always a gotcha… 🙂
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