# MONTH

| **Description** | The **`MONTH`** function extracts and returns the month component from a given date or datetime. This is useful for date-based analysis, organizing data by months, or generating monthly reports. |
| --------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Syntax**      | MONTH(date)                                                                                                                                                                                        |

1. **`date`**: The date or datetime from which you want to extract the month component.

## Example

### Table

| Transaction   | Sale Date  |
| ------------- | ---------- |
| Transaction A | 2023-09-10 |
| Transaction B | 2023-08-25 |
| Transaction C | 2023-09-01 |

### Function

```
Month(`Sale Date`)
```

### Results

| Month(Sale Date) |
| ---------------- |
| 9                |
| 8                |
| 9                |
