I have a table called cc_calls and there I have many call records I want to count them and group them in months I have a timestamp called starttime and I can use that row to extract the month, also limit the count for 12 months the results should be like: Month Count January 768768 February 876786 March 987979 April 765765 May 898797 June 876876 July 786575 August 765765 September 689787 October 765879 November 897989 December 876876 Can anyone guide me or show me the mysql query that I need to get this result.