How to display 1st date of month as column name in SQL

Question

I need to display 1st date of current month as column name in SQL

I wrote the below query, but not getting correct column name

SELECT  Citrix_ID as [Citrix ID], Full_Name as [Full Name]
  , Band, Cigna_DOJ as [Cigna DOJ]
  , [01] +' as ' + '''' + SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR,DATEADD(month, DATEDIFF(MONTH, 0, GETDATE()), 0),106) + '''' 
FROM [dbo].[admin.Attendance]

Answer 1

You can use Dynamic Sql for such things.

Example snippet:

declare @FirstDayOfMonth date = dateadd(day,1,eomonth(GetDate(),-1));
declare @ColName varchar(30) = quotename(format(@FirstDayOfMonth,'dd-MMM-yyyy'));

declare @DynSql nvarchar(max);

-- build the string for the actual query 
set  @DynSql = 'select 1 as '+ @ColName;

-- test how it looks
select @DynSql as DynSql;

-- run it
exec(@DynSql);

Result:

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1

For your query the string could be constructed like this:

set  @DynSql = 'SELECT'+char(10)+
 '  Citrix_ID as [Citrix ID]'+char(10)+
 ', Full_Name as [Full Name]'+char(10)+
 ', Band'+char(10)+
 ', Cigna_DOJ as [Cigna DOJ]'+char(10)+
 ', [01]  as '+ @ColName +char(10)+
 'FROM [dbo].[admin.Attendance]';

Note that in Ms Sql Server 2017+ there's a CONCAT_WS

Answer 2

Try like below

SELECT SELECT format( DATEADD(month, DATEDIFF(month, 0,getdate()), 0),'dd-MMM-yyyy') AS _stday AS firstday,Citrix_ID as [Citrix ID], Full_Name as [Full Name], Band, Cigna_DOJ as [Cigna DOJ]
FROM [dbo].[admin.Attendance]

Answer 3

SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR,DATEADD(month, DATEDIFF(MONTH, 0, GETDATE()), 0),101)       as FirstDateOfMonth

Answer 4

You can directly use REPLACE function

SELECT REPLACE(CONVERT(VARCHAR,DATEADD(month, DATEDIFF(MONTH, 0, GETDATE()),0),106),' ', '-') 
       as FirstDateOfTheMonth;

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