Order By Date Part

To order by date part, use EXTRACT() on the date field with the ORDER BY clause. The query returns the count of rows containing these same values and orders the results by count descending.

SELECT EXTRACT(YEAR FROM CloseDate) AS CloseDate_Year, EXTRACT(MONTH FROM CloseDate) AS CloseDate_Month, COUNT(*) AS cnt
FROM "OpportunityFiscalEMTimezoned"
GROUP BY EXTRACT(YEAR FROM CloseDate), EXTRACT(MONTH FROM CloseDate)
ORDER BY cnt DESC
LIMIT 10;
CloseDate_Year CloseDate_Month cnt
2015 1 3
2015 3 2
2015 4 2
2015 5 2
2014 12 1
2015 2 1
2015 6 1
2015 8 1
2015 10 1
2015 11 1