List of months and years

Question

How i can get list of months and years from my tables(ex. tab1), when i have start date ex. 072003 and end date ex. 042005 . That i use in report 6i.. . .
months | years| . . . . .
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Answer 1

If i am not wrong you want these result
SQL> SELECT hiredate FROM emp;
HIREDATE
17-DEC-80
20-FEB-81
22-FEB-81
02-APR-81
28-SEP-81
01-MAY-81
09-JUN-81
19-APR-87
17-NOV-81
08-SEP-81
23-MAY-87
03-DEC-81
03-DEC-81
23-JAN-82
14 rows selected.
SQL> INSERT INTO emp (empno,hiredate,deptno) VALUES (1,SYSDATE,10);
1 row created.
SQL> COMMIT;
Commit complete.
SQL> SELECT hiredate FROM emp;
HIREDATE
17-DEC-80
20-FEB-81
22-FEB-81
02-APR-81
28-SEP-81
01-MAY-81
09-JUN-81
19-APR-87
17-NOV-81
08-SEP-81
23-MAY-87
03-DEC-81
03-DEC-81
23-JAN-82
01-SEP-06
15 rows selected.
SQL> SELECT TO_CHAR(a,'MON-YYYY') b FROM
  2  (SELECT ADD_MONTHS(TRUNC(sysdate,'YYYY'),(rn.r-1)) a FROM
  3  (SELECT ROWNUM r FROM user_objects WHERE ROWNUM<=12) rn)
  4  MINUS
  5  SELECT TO_CHAR(hiredate,'MON-YYYY') FROM emp;
B
APR-2006
AUG-2006
DEC-2006
FEB-2006
JAN-2006
JUL-2006
JUN-2006
MAR-2006
MAY-2006
NOV-2006
OCT-2006
11 rows selected.
SQL> SELECT b FROM
  2  (SELECT TO_CHAR(a,'MON-YYYY') b FROM
  3  (SELECT ADD_MONTHS(TRUNC(sysdate,'YYYY'),(rn.r-1)) a FROM
  4  (SELECT ROWNUM r FROM user_objects WHERE ROWNUM<=12) rn)
  5  MINUS
  6  SELECT TO_CHAR(hiredate,'MON-YYYY') FROM emp)
  7  WHERE b BETWEEN 'NOV-2006' AND 'SEP-2006';
B
NOV-2006
OCT-2006
SQL> Khurram