Help in writing SQl Statment

Question

Hi all,
I have a table which contain project details those are the coulmns:
Project_number (PK)
Submit Date
Project_title
Project_milestones
I want to retrieve how many number of project in each mounth per year
Output Example:
Date Number of projects
FEB 2008 *6*
March 2008 *5*
FEB 2009 *4*
March 2009 *7*
And so on, I tryed to write an sql statment to retrieve the desired results but I couldn't.
If any one has any idea in retrieving such result please assist me how to write this sql statment.

Answer 1

Hi,
If submit_date is a DATE, then TRUNC (submit_date, 'MM') is the beginning of the month that countains it.
So you can say:
SELECT    TRUNC (submit_date, 'MM')   AS month
,         COUNT (*)                   AS cnt
FROM      project_table
GROUP BY  TRUNC (submit_date, 'MM');Of course, you can add TO_CHAR to the first line to format the date however you like.