Posted by Robert Klemme on 02/02/06 14:18

Robert wrote:
> Thanx Erland, I am not worthy!!

You can as well use DATEPART to extract year and month from the timestamp
column.

robert

>
> "Erland Sommarskog" <esquel@sommarskog.se> wrote in message
> news:Xns975E38A7771EYazorman@127.0.0.1...
>> Robert (robert.j.sipe@boeing.com) writes:
>>> Maybe this is a lot easier to do than I first thought:
>>>
>>> select count(*) from application_errors
>>> where error_message like 'Time%'
>>> and error_time >= '1Jan2004' and error_time < '1Jan2005'
>>> group by month (error_time)
>>>
>>> This saves me a lot of work. Now, if I could figure out how to span
>>> years
>>> and still group by months...
>>
>>
>> select convert(char(6), error_time, 112), count(*) from
>> application_errors
>> where error_message like 'Time%'
>> and error_time >= '1Jan2004'
>> group by convert(char(6), error_time, 112)
>>
>>
>> --
>> Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se
>>
>> Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at
>>
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books.mspx
>> Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at
>> http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx

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