Fun Data Arithmetic

Date fun

Just the time, please

DateTime data types

Financial Month

This Script will return the respective financial month(Starts from April to March) for a calander month Input(Starts from January to April), May use for many Consolidated Financial Reports.

Datetime precision

Temporal Datatypes in SQL Server

In the first of a series of articles on the tricks of tackling temporal data in SQL, Joe Celko discusses SQL's temporal data types and agonizes over the fact that, although there are ANSI/ISO Standards for temporal operations in SQL, every vendor has something different.

SQL Server Function to Determine a Leap Year

I need to write a function to determine if particular year is a leap year (i.e. February contains 29 days rather than 28 days). I know that there are various rules for calculating leap years. Is there an easy way to figure this out? Can you provide an example or two to validate various years?

SQL Server 2008 New DATETIME DataTypes

This article is going to cover the newly introduced data types in SQL Server 2008 July CTP, and will specifically discuss the DATETIME functions.

Generating Missing Dates and Numbers

Finding missing data in a sequence of numbers or dates is a common request of DBAs. Regular author Jacob Sebastian brings us a new article that shows just how you can do this.