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?? on creating a temp table for a date range

jbalbo

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June 25, 2013 at 6:58 am

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Hi,
Can someone pint me in the direction of where I can see some examples on creating a temp table for a date range?
What I need to do is use SSRS with parameters for a month and year o create report. I then need to choose data within that month and create a matrix report.
Problem I find is some dates don't have data but I still want to show the date as null so I show all dates in the month. I assume I have to create a temp table using a dimdate table?
Thanks
Joe

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J Livingston SQL SSC Guru Points: 51550 More actions · Answer 1

search this site for "calendar table"

lots of articles that may help

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286573 More actions · Answer 2

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r.mitchell Old Hand Points: 368 More actions · Answer 3

I use a recursive CTE for this usually. In this example it will give you all the days in June. Had to use this when I created a calendar application with recurring entries. Sort of like outlook and needed to match the day of week based on its recurrence schedule. Like every week, 2 weeks, month... etc.

DECLARE @StartDate DATE = '6/1/2013';

WITH dt(MDate) AS (

SELECT @StartDate AS MDate

UNION ALL

SELECT DATEADD(dd, 1, MDate)

FROM dt

WHERE DATEADD(dd, 1, MDate) < DATEADD(mm, 1, @StartDate)

)

SELECT MDate FROM dt

Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183698 More actions · Answer 4

r.mitchell (6/26/2013)
I use a recursive CTE for this usually. In this example it will give you all the days in June. Had to use this when I created a calendar application with recurring entries. Sort of like outlook and needed to match the day of week based on its recurrence schedule. Like every week, 2 weeks, month... etc.
DECLARE @StartDate DATE = '6/1/2013';
WITH dt(MDate) AS (
SELECT @StartDate AS MDate
UNION ALL
SELECT DATEADD(dd, 1, MDate)
FROM dt
WHERE DATEADD(dd, 1, MDate) < DATEADD(mm, 1, @StartDate)
)
SELECT MDate FROM dt

Please, avoid this and read the following article:

Hidden RBAR: Counting with Recursive CTE's[/url]

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286573 More actions · Answer 5

And here is an example of doing this without using a recursive cte for counting. This code also will only return data for the specified month even if the @StartDate is not the first of the month. To see what I mean change the start date to June 2nd and run the recursive version. It will return dates in July because it assumes the start date is the first of the month. Now run the one below with the same start date and it will only return 28 rows now.

DECLARE @StartDate DATE = '6/1/2013';

WITH

E1(N) AS (select 1 from (values (1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1))dt(n)),

E2(N) AS (SELECT 1 FROM E1 a, E1 b), --10E+2 or 100 rows

cteTally(N) AS

(

SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY (SELECT NULL)) FROM E2

)

select DATEADD(day, N - 1, @StartDate)

from cteTally

where N <= DATEDIFF(day, @StartDate, dateadd(month, datediff(month, 0, @StartDate) + 1, 0))

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r.mitchell Old Hand Points: 368 More actions · Answer 6

Hmm. thanks for the good read. Time to change some code around 🙂