How to get the last day of previous monnth

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How to get the last day of previous month?? and last day of prior two months?
means when i give getdate() i need feb lastday and january lastday also..

What I have tried:

I tried but iam not sure how to get it.

Posted 9-Mar-16 21:24pm

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Updated 10-Mar-16 18:08pm

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select DATEADD(MONTH, DATEDIFF(MONTH, -1, GETDATE())-1, -1)

Posted 10-Mar-16 18:08pm

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Animesh Datta · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-09T21:32:00

Solution 1

Hello,
Refer link :

C#

SQL SERVER – Find Last Day of Any Month – Current Previous Next

In Short

SQL

----Last Day of Month before Previous Month 
SELECT DATEADD(s,-1,DATEADD(mm, DATEDIFF(m,0,GETDATE())-1,0))

 
----Last Day of Previous Month
SELECT DATEADD(s,-1,DATEADD(mm, DATEDIFF(m,0,GETDATE()),0))

----Last Day of Current Month
SELECT DATEADD(s,-1,DATEADD(mm, DATEDIFF(m,0,GETDATE())+1,0))

----Last Day of Next Month
SELECT DATEADD(s,-1,DATEADD(mm, DATEDIFF(m,0,GETDATE())+2,0))

Posted 9-Mar-16 21:32pm

Animesh Datta

Updated 9-Mar-16 21:35pm

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Member 11931581 10-Mar-16 3:39am

Hi Thanks alot!! and I have a small doubt ..I hiis code what is mean by 's'(SELECT DATEADD(s,-1,DATEADD(mm, DATEDIFF(m,0,GETDATE())-1,0)))

jaket-cp 10-Mar-16 4:25am

It would be good if you could do an In Long version of your solution

Animesh Datta 10-Mar-16 4:57am

Hello ,
Here 's' is an Abbreviations of datepart . for more information check
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186819.aspx .

If your problem is solved then Accept the answer.

jaket-cp 10-Mar-16 5:03am

Thanks for that, but I understand what is happening but the op does not.
I would also give links to DateDiff and GetDate.
And probably explain in pseudocode code what is happening, that would be a improved solution and I would give you a 5star for that :)

Member 11931581 10-Mar-16 5:10am

My Problem Solved..Thanks a lot!!Animesh..