SQL Server Group By Month

Question

I have a table which has this schema

ItemID    UserID    Year    IsPaid    PaymentDate  Amount
1         1         2009    0         2009-11-01  300
2         1         2009    0         2009-12-01  342
3         1         2010    0         2010-01-01  243
4         1         2010    0         2010-02-01  2543
5         1         2010    0         2010-03-01  475

I'm trying to get a query working which shows the totals for each month. So far I've tried DateDiff and nested selects, but neither gives me what I want. This is the closest I have I think:

DECLARE @start [datetime] = 2010/4/1;
SELECT ItemID, IsPaid,
(SELECT SUM(Amount) FROM Payments WHERE Year = 2010 And DateDiff(m, PaymentDate, @start) = 0 AND UserID = 100) AS "Apr",
(SELECT SUM(Amount) FROM Payments WHERE Year = 2010 AND DateDiff(m, PaymentDate, @start) =1 AND UserID = 100) AS "May",
(SELECT SUM(Amount) FROM Payments WHERE Year = 2010 AND DateDiff(m, PaymentDate, @start) =2 AND UserID = 100) AS "Jun", 
(SELECT SUM(Amount) FROM Payments WHERE Year = 2010 AND DateDiff(m, PaymentDate, @start) =3 AND UserID = 100) AS "Jul", 
(SELECT SUM(Amount) FROM Payments WHERE Year = 2010 AND DateDiff(m, PaymentDate, @start) =4  AND UserID = 100) AS "Aug", 
(SELECT SUM(Amount) FROM Payments WHERE Year = 2010 AND DateDiff(m, PaymentDate, @start) =5  AND UserID = 100) AS "Sep", 
(SELECT SUM(Amount) FROM Payments WHERE Year = 2010 AND DateDiff(m, PaymentDate, @start) =6  AND UserID = 100) AS "Oct", 
(SELECT SUM(Amount) FROM Payments WHERE Year = 2010 AND DateDiff(m, PaymentDate, @start) =7 AND UserID = 100) AS "Nov", 
(SELECT SUM(Amount) FROM Payments WHERE Year = 2010 AND DateDiff(m, PaymentDate, @start) =8 AND UserID = 100) AS "Dec", 
(SELECT SUM(Amount) FROM Payments WHERE Year = 2010 AND DateDiff(m, PaymentDate, @start) =9 AND UserID = 100) AS "Jan", 
(SELECT SUM(Amount) FROM Payments WHERE Year = 2010 AND DateDiff(m, PaymentDate, @start) =10 AND UserID = 100) AS "Feb", 
(SELECT SUM(Amount) FROM Payments WHERE Year = 2010 AND DateDiff(m, PaymentDate, @start) =11 AND UserID = 100) AS "Mar" 
FROM LIVE L INNER JOIN Payments I ON I.LiveID = L.RECORD_KEY 
WHERE UserID = 16178 

But I just get nulls when I should be getting values. Am I missing something?

Answer 1

SELECT CONVERT(NVARCHAR(10), PaymentDate, 120) [Month], SUM(Amount) [TotalAmount]
FROM Payments
GROUP BY CONVERT(NVARCHAR(10), PaymentDate, 120)
ORDER BY [Month]

You could also try:

SELECT DATEPART(Year, PaymentDate) Year, DATEPART(Month, PaymentDate) Month, SUM(Amount) [TotalAmount]
FROM Payments
GROUP BY DATEPART(Year, PaymentDate), DATEPART(Month, PaymentDate)
ORDER BY Year, Month