Need to select dates between two range

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Need to select dates between two range

ramadesai108

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March 13, 2009 at 9:47 am

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Hi All,
I need to select dates between "02/15/2009" and "02/19/2009" how do I do that?
Thanks

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andrewd.smith SSCrazy Eights Points: 8444 More actions · Answer 1

More information please!

Do you want to select all the records in some table or view where the value of a datetime column is between two dates, or do you want to return a contiguous set of dates, i.e. one row per day between the specified dates.

Also is your date range inclusive? i.e. do you want to include rows associated with the specified end date in your resultset?

ramadesai108 SSChampion Points: 10609 More actions · Answer 2

I want to select dates between "02/15/2009" and "02/19/2009", one day per row like,

02/15/2009

02/16/2009

02/17/2009

02/18/2009

02/19/2009

so the end date should be included

thanks

andrewd.smith SSCrazy Eights Points: 8444 More actions · Answer 3

You need some form of Tally table (or Numbers table). These can be permanent tables or can be generated on the fly. The Tally table I'm using below has the following structure:

CREATE TABLE dbo.Tally (

N int NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED

)

There's plenty of information on Tally tables elsewhere on this site. Here's the T-SQL to return the list of sequential dates. In this case, the Tally table must contain the sequential integers between 0 and the maximum number of rows you are ever likely to require.

DECLARE @startDate datetime

DECLARE @endDate datetime

SELECT @startDate = '20090215', @endDate = '20090219'

SELECT DATEADD(day, T.N, @StartDate) AS [Date]

FROM dbo.Tally T

WHERE (T.N >= 0 AND T.N <= DATEDIFF(day, @startDate, @endDate))

ORDER BY T.N

ramadesai108 SSChampion Points: 10609 More actions · Answer 4

ramadesai108

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March 13, 2009 at 12:12 pm

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Thanks Andrew, that really worked.

jonathan.gregg SSC Journeyman Points: 75 More actions · Answer 5

Hello all,

I'm really (I mean really) new to this so thanks for the info, I've learned a ton about Tally tables. However, I still don't understand how I get say a specific column of dates from a table into the Tally table?

As an example:

If I wanted to get the month begin/end from somecolumnname.tablename into the Tally table?? I guess I'm a little lost at where the Tally table gets it's data from initially

chrisfradenburg SSCrazy Eights Points: 9592 More actions · Answer 6

A tally table is something that you need to generate. Here's an article about it including several scripts to create it:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/62867/

Michael Newell SSCrazy Points: 2802 More actions · Answer 7

If you have SQL 2005+ you can use a CTE to get the results:

DECLARE @StartDate DATETIME;

DECLARE @EndDate DATETIME;

SET @StartDate = '4/1/2012';

SET @EndDate = '6/15/2012';

;WITH

n AS (SELECT num = ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY (SELECT 1)) FROM sys.all_columns a1 CROSS JOIN sys.all_columns a2),

dt AS (SELECT [date] = DATEADD(day, n.num - 1, @StartDate) FROM n WHERE n.num BETWEEN 1 AND DATEDIFF(day, @StartDate, @EndDate) + 1)

SELECT * FROM dt;