Creating Month-Year Field From Date

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

I'm currently trying to convert a date value (eg 01/01/2013, DD/MM/YYYY) to a month-year format - Jan-13. In my script I am using the following line to achieve this:

Date(date,'MMM-YY') AS MonthYear

What I expect to see is a single row for each unique MonthYear value. What I get though is what appears to be a new row for each day of the month for a given MonthYear value:

It's as if the field is displaying the date correctly but somewhere in the back end there is extra date data attached to the row. I have other apps that use similar code but don't exhibit this behavior. Any ideas what's going on?

Thanks,

Adam

[robert_mika]

try this:

t1:

load * Inline

[

datek

01/01/2013

02/01/2013

02/02/2013

01/01/2013

01/03/2013

02/03/2013

]

;

t2:

DATE(makedate(right(datek,4),mid(datek,4,2)),'MMM-YY') as MonthYear

Resident t1;

DROP TABLE t1

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi Robert,

Thanks for the suggestion. After a little more research I've found that the following code does what I like without needing to convert the date to text:

date(monthstart(date,), 'MMM-YY'))

Thanks again,

Adam