Date function returning every wednesday of the year

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Date function returning every wednesday of the year

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December 19, 2008 at 7:10 am

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Need help for a date function to return every wednesday of the year.
thx guys

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Jonathan Kehayias One Orange Chip Points: 26778 More actions · Answer 1

This is the kind of problem that a calendar table is good at solving, and not a function.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Advanced+Querying/onthetrailoftheisoweek/1675/

http://sqlserver2000.databases.aspfaq.com/why-should-i-consider-using-an-auxiliary-calendar-table.html

Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184394 More actions · Answer 2

I agree with Jonathan. Here's a basic idea of what you would want to do:

[font="Courier New"]SELECT TOP 366

IDENTITY(INT, 1, 1) AS n

INTO

#nums

FROM

sys.all_objects

SELECT

DATEADD(DAY, n, '1/1/2008')

FROM

#nums

WHERE

DATEPART(weekday, DATEADD(DAY, n, '1/1/2008')) = CASE @@DateFirst

WHEN 7 THEN 4

WHEN 6 THEN 5

WHEN 5 THEN 6

WHEN 4 THEN 7

WHEN 3 THEN 1

WHEN 2 THEN 2

ELSE 3

END

DROP TABLE #nums[/font]

If you already have a numbers/tally table then you can replace the temp table with it. DatePart is based on the Set DateFirst option and by having the Case in the where you handle all the DateFirst options.

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Jonathan Kehayias One Orange Chip Points: 26778 More actions · Answer 3

I would have missed that @@datefirst part. Nice example Jack.

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December 19, 2008 at 7:32 am

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excellent, thanks guys

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Jonathan Kehayias (12/19/2008)
I would have missed that @@datefirst part. Nice example Jack.

Thanks, I only got it because I had to lookup what number was returned for Wednesday and knew I'd end up getting burned by a different setting.

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Denby Hall of Fame Points: 3120 More actions · Answer 6

Just to follow-up guys trying to assing values to variables:

example:

set @quart = (select DATEPART(Quarter ,Date)) from @nums where Date = convert(varchar(50),getdate(), 103))

but gettin the following error

Msg 242, Level 16, State 3, Line 33

The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value.

Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184394 More actions · Answer 7

Your SQL Server is set to recognize dates in mdy and the parameter you have on your convert is producing dmy so when sql server is converting it back to a date you are getting the conversion error. You want 112 is ISO and works with all data format settings.

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Jack Corbett (12/19/2008)
I agree with Jonathan. Here's a basic idea of what you would want to do:
[font="Courier New"]SELECT TOP 366
   IDENTITY(INT, 1, 1) AS n
INTO
   #nums
FROM
   sys.all_objects

   SELECT
       DATEADD(DAY, n, '1/1/2008')
   FROM
       #nums
   WHERE
       DATEPART(weekday, DATEADD(DAY, n, '1/1/2008')) = CASE @@DateFirst
                                                               WHEN 7 THEN 4
                                                               WHEN 6 THEN 5
                                                               WHEN 5 THEN 6
                                                               WHEN 4 THEN 7
                                                               WHEN 3 THEN 1
                                                               WHEN 2 THEN 2
                                                               ELSE 3

END
DROP TABLE #nums[/font]
If you already have a numbers/tally table then you can replace the temp table with it.
DatePart is based on the Set DateFirst option and by having the Case in the where you handle all the DateFirst options.

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