EOMONTH

Returns the last day of the month that contains the specified date, with an optional offset.

Syntax

EOMONTH ( start_date [, month_to_add ] )

Arguments

start_date

Date expression specifying the date for which to return the last day of the month.

month_to_add

Optional integer expression specifying the number of months to add to start_date.

If this argument is specified, then EOMONTH adds the specified number of months to start_date, and then returns the last day of the month for the resulting date. If this addition overflows the valid range of dates, then an error is raised.

Return types

date

Example

DECLARE @date DATETIME = GETDATE();  
SELECT EOMONTH ( @date ) AS 'This Month';  
SELECT EOMONTH ( @date, 1 ) AS 'Next Month';  
SELECT EOMONTH ( @date, -1 ) AS 'Last Month';  

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