Need First 3 letters of the month

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Hi all

below is my query to return the month name from month number

SQL

SELECT DATENAME(MONTH, CAST(CAST(YEAR(GETDATE()) AS VARCHAR) 
+ '-' + CAST('2' AS VARCHAR) + '-01' AS DATETIME)) AS MonthName

it shows output as February.
but i want only first 3 letters only in the same query.

Thank you

Posted 2-Dec-13 23:30pm

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Animesh Datta · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-02T23:41:00

Hello ,

you have to use

SQL

SUBSTRING

in your query to get first 3 letters of the month.

modify the query

SQL

SELECT SUBSTRING(DATENAME(MONTH, CAST(CAST(YEAR(GETDATE()) AS VARCHAR)
+ '-' + CAST('2' AS VARCHAR) + '-01' AS DATETIME)),1,3) AS MonthName

For more details on substring go through This link

thanks