Current Year & Prior Month

Hello experts. I tried a bunch of things, but I can't seem to get it right. I want to get the format of my date like this: yyMM
and have MM be the prior month.
So, for 03/06/2015, I'd like to get this '1502'
How can I do that?
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>> I want to get the format of my date like this: yyMM .. So, for 03/06/2015, [gee, is that '2015-03-06' or '2015-06-03'?? ] I'd like to get this '1502' <<
Why did you pick the worst possible local dialect for your display in the presentation layers? Google some articles on temporal data. This is more than SQL.
Since SQL is a database language, we prefer to do look ups and not calculations. They can be optimized while temporal math messes up optimization. A useful idiom is a report period calendar that everyone uses so there is no way to get disagreements in the DML.
The report period table gives a name to a range of dates that is common to the entire enterprise.
CREATE TABLE Something_Report_Periods
(something_report_name CHAR(10) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY
CHECK (something_report_name LIKE <pattern>),
something_report_start_date DATE NOT NULL,
something_report_end_date DATE NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT date_ordering
CHECK (something_report_start_date <= something_report_end_date),
etc);
These report periods can overlap or have gaps. I like the MySQL convention of using double zeroes for months and years, That is 'yyyy-mm-00' for a month within a year and 'yyyy-00-00' for the whole year. The advantages are that it will sort with the ISO-8601
data format required by Standard SQL and it is language independent. The pattern for validation is '[12][0-9][0-9][0-9]-00-00' and '[12][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[01][0-9]-00'
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