SQL Query Join plus sum and months sorting

Question

i have a problem using the sum function with the inner join in the below query

SELECT distinct Datename(Month,(date)), year(date), SUM(tblpayment.Amount)  
FROM TblSubsc INNER JOIN TBLPayment ON 
TblSubsc.[Subsc ID]=TBLPayment.[Subsc ID] 
group by year(date),Datename(Month,(date))

it is giving the sum but the months are not sorted so i get

April
August
February
January
March
May

please any help would be appreciated

Answer 1

Try to add the order by clause

order by year(date) asc, month(date) asc

and add

month(date)

to group by too.

EDIT: remove "distinct" as it's not necessary in this case because the data is already grouped by month & date.