How to get DAY , MONTH and YEAR from current date using sql query?

In this article, I found a sql query to find day, month and year from the current or any date using inbuilt functions such as DATEPART() or DAY(), MONTH() and YEAR() functions. 

SELECT
DATEPART(DD,GETDATE()) AS Day,
DATEPART(MM,GETDATE()) AS Month,
DATENAME(YYYY,GETDATE()) AS Year

(OR)
 
SELECT
DATEPART(DAY,GETDATE()) AS Day,
DATEPART(MONTH,GETDATE()) AS Month,
DATEPART(YEAR,GETDATE()) AS Year
 

Output

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Day         Month       Year

21          3           2016