Get 2 Digit Number For The Month

I have an integer column “Month” I would like to get 2 digit number for month.

This is what I have tried: DATEPART(mm, @Date)

It returns one digit for months January to September I am using SQL Server 2008

Anyone has suggestion?

Answer

there are different ways of doing it

• Using RTRIM and specifing the range:

like

SELECT RIGHT('0' + RTRIM(MONTH('12-31-2012')), 2); 

• Using Substring to just extract the month part after converting the date into text

like

SELECT SUBSTRING(CONVERT(nvarchar(6),getdate(), 112),5,2)

see Fiddle

There may be other ways to get this.