Group by month and year in MySQL

Question

Given a table with a timestamp on each row, how would you format the query to fit into this specific json object format.

I am trying to organize a json object into years / months.

json to base the query off:

{
  "2009":["August","July","September"],
  "2010":["January", "February", "October"]
}

Here is the query I have so far -

SELECT
    MONTHNAME(t.summaryDateTime) as month, YEAR(t.summaryDateTime) as year
FROM
    trading_summary t 
GROUP BY MONTH(t.summaryDateTime) DESC";

The query is breaking down because it is (predictably) lumping together the different years.

Answer 1

I prefer

SELECT
    MONTHNAME(t.summaryDateTime) as month, YEAR(t.summaryDateTime) as year
FROM
    trading_summary t 
GROUP BY EXTRACT(YEAR_MONTH FROM t.summaryDateTime) DESC";

Answer 2

SELECT MONTHNAME(t.summaryDateTime) as month, YEAR(t.summaryDateTime) as year
FROM trading_summary t
GROUP BY YEAR(t.summaryDateTime) DESC, MONTH(t.summaryDateTime) DESC

Should use DESC for both YEAR and Month to get correct order.

Answer 3

SELECT YEAR(t.summaryDateTime) as yr, GROUP_CONCAT(MONTHNAME(t.summaryDateTime)) AS month 
FROM trading_summary t GROUP BY yr

Still you would need to process it in external script to get exactly the structure you're looking for.

For example use PHP's explode to create an array from list of month names and then use json_encode()

Answer 4

use EXTRACT function like this

mysql> SELECT EXTRACT(YEAR FROM '2009-07-02');
       -> 2009

Answer 5

GROUP BY DATE_FORMAT(summaryDateTime,'%Y-%m')