Group by month and year in MySQL

Question

GROUP BY YEAR(t.summaryDateTime), MONTH(t.summaryDateTime);

is what you want.

GROUP BY DATE_FORMAT(summaryDateTime,'%Y-%m')

I prefer

SELECT
    MONTHNAME(t.summaryDateTime) as month, YEAR(t.summaryDateTime) as year
FROM
    trading_summary t 
GROUP BY EXTRACT(YEAR_MONTH FROM t.summaryDateTime);

SELECT MONTHNAME(t.summaryDateTime) as month, YEAR(t.summaryDateTime) as year
FROM trading_summary t
GROUP BY YEAR(t.summaryDateTime) DESC, MONTH(t.summaryDateTime) DESC

Should use DESC for both YEAR and Month to get correct order.

I know this is an old question, but the following should work if you don't need the month name at the DB level:

  SELECT EXTRACT(YEAR_MONTH FROM summaryDateTime) summary_year_month 
    FROM trading_summary  
GROUP BY summary_year_month;

See EXTRACT function docs

You will probably find this to be better performing.. and if you are building a JSON object in the application layer, you can do the formatting/ordering as you run through the results.

N.B. I wasn't aware you could add DESC to a GROUP BY clause in MySQL, perhaps you are missing an ORDER BY clause:

  SELECT EXTRACT(YEAR_MONTH FROM summaryDateTime) summary_year_month 
    FROM trading_summary  
GROUP BY summary_year_month
ORDER BY summary_year_month DESC;