How to sort by month in MySQL - mysql

Question

Here is demo
The order is November and October. How can I add ORDER BY to this, so that the order is by month, Jan, Feb, Mar...etc.
Thanks in advance.
CREATE TABLE `hw_homework` (
`id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`studentid` int(10) NOT NULL,
`subjectid` int(10) NOT NULL,
`assignment_name` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
`teacherid` int(10) NOT NULL,
`date` date NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci AUTO_INCREMENT=55 ;
--
-- Dumping data for table `hw_homework`
--
INSERT INTO `hw_homework` (`id`, `studentid`, `subjectid`, `assignment_name`, `teacherid`, `date`) VALUES
(52, 56, 13, '1A', 20, '2012-10-28'),
(53, 56, 6, '12', 18, '2012-10-28'),
(54, 56, 4, 'page42', 59, '2012-11-02');
SELECT studentID,
DATE_FORMAT(`date`,'%M') `month`,
COUNT(studentid) totalMissed
FROM hw_homework
WHERE studentid = 56
GROUP BY studentid, DATE_FORMAT(`date`, '%M')

Answer 1

As Chuidiang suggested I added the following to get what I wanted.
Thanks everyone.
ORDER BY Month(date)

Answer 2

In your case it is ordering based on aplhabets.
Following will give correct result.
SELECT studentID,
DATE_FORMAT(`date`,'%M') `month`,
COUNT(studentid) totalMissed
FROM hw_homework
WHERE studentid = 56
GROUP BY studentid, DATE_FORMAT(`date`, '%M')
ORDER BY DATE_FORMAT(`date`,'%m')

Answer 3

Stumbled across this post trying to find the solution to sort by Month name. Probably not very elegant solution, but you can use the FIELD string function to get that result set.
SELECT
studentID,
DATE_FORMAT(`date`, '%M') `month`,
COUNT(studentid) totalMissed FROM
hw_homework WHERE
studentid = 56 GROUP BY
studentid,
DATE_FORMAT(`date`, '%M') ORDER BY
FIELD(
DATE_FORMAT(`date`, '%M'),
'January',
'February',
'March',
'April',
'May',
'June',
'July',
'August',
'September',
'October',
'November',
'December'
);
Try that. Also you can perhaps replace DATE_FORMAT with the easier function MONTHNAME(date) for readability purposes.

Answer 4

SELECT studentID,
DATE_FORMAT(`date`,'%M') as `month`,
COUNT(studentid) totalMissed
FROM hw_homework
WHERE studentid = 56
order by Month(month)
GROUP BY studentid, DATE_FORMAT(`date`, '%M')

Answer 5

SELECT studentID,
DATE_FORMAT(`date`,'%M') `month`,
COUNT(studentid) totalMissed
FROM hw_homework
WHERE studentid = 56
GROUP BY MONTH(DATE) ASC

Answer 6

Use as follows in your query
GROUP BY MONTH(date)

Answer 7

mysql> select * from hw_homework order by date asc; //increasing order
OR
mysql> select * from hw_homework order by date desc;