Query to Find First and Last Day of Current Month

Hello friends,
Following is a TSQL script that will find the 'Last day of previous month','First day of current month' and so on...
Hope so this will help you.

DECLARE @mydate DATETIME
SELECT @mydate = GETDATE()
SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(25),DATEADD(dd,-(DAY(@mydate)),@mydate),101) ,
'Last Day of Previous Month'
UNION
SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(25),DATEADD(dd,-(DAY(@mydate)-1),@mydate),101) AS Date_Value,
'First Day of Current Month' AS Date_Type
UNION
SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(25),@mydate,101) AS Date_Value, 'Today' AS Date_Type
UNION
SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(25),DATEADD(dd,-(DAY(DATEADD(mm,1,@mydate))),DATEADD(mm,1,@mydate)),101) ,
'Last Day of Current Month'
UNION
SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(25),DATEADD(dd,-(DAY(DATEADD(mm,1,@mydate))-1),DATEADD(mm,1,@mydate)),101) ,
'First Day of Next Month'
GO

You can find main article on this url i.e. http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/05/13/sql-server-query-to-find-first-and-last-day-of-current-month/


Regards,
Kinjal

XML Path Query

Hello Friends,
Here I provide you one link that will share you how to use xml in sql server.

http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/jacob/archive/2008/08/04/for-xml-path-how-to-remove-the-lt-row-gt-element-from-the-output-of-a-for-xml-path-query.aspx

Hopes it will help for beginners.

Regards,
Kinjal

MVC2

http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT59?type=wmv