Get month and year from a datetime in SQL Server 2005

I need the month+year from the datetime in SQL Server like 'Jan 2008'. I'm grouping the query by month, year. I've searched and found functions like datepart, convert, etc., but none of them seem useful for this. Am I missing something here? Is there a function for this?

select 
datepart(month,getdate()) -- integer (1,2,3...)
,datepart(year,getdate()) -- integer
,datename(month,getdate()) -- string ('September',...)

If you mean you want them back as a string, in that format;

SELECT 
  CONVERT(CHAR(4), date_of_birth, 100) + CONVERT(CHAR(4), date_of_birth, 120) 
FROM customers

Here are the other format options

Beginning with SQL Server 2012, you can use:

SELECT FORMAT(@date, 'yyyyMM')

Use:

select datepart(mm,getdate())  --to get month value
select datename(mm,getdate())  --to get name of month