Retreive all records that fall in month by passing date

Question

This is more of an sql question. Is it possible to create a query that selects all records based for the month up to the day given in an sql Date without having to pass two separate dates(starting day of month and day of month to select up to)?
public void getRecords(java.sql.Date aDate) {
Something like:
SELECT *
FROM <table>
WHERE <records in month up to> aDate
return records;
}

Answer 1

This is going to be server specific, and I am going to give you MSSQL syntax.
select * from mytable where datepart(m,mydate)=datepart(m,getdate()) and datepart(yy,mydate)=datepart(yy,getdate())
I haven't tested this, but it should work.
Please note that query is going to require a table scan. every record is going to have to be lloked at to see if it matches. If you have a lot of records, look for a better way.