Displays range of dates - Calendar

April 11, 2004

>>Script Language and Platform: SQL Server 2000
This script displays a range of dates.

select count(*) from dbo.calendar ('1974-09-09','2004-01-10')
--results
10716


select * from dbo.calendar ('2001-01-01','2001-01-05')

--results
id,date,month,day
id,date,month,day
1,2001-01-01 00:00:00.000,January,Monday
2,2001-01-02 00:00:00.000,January,Tuesday
3,2001-01-03 00:00:00.000,January,Wednesday
4,2001-01-04 00:00:00.000,January,Thursday
5,2001-01-05 00:00:00.000,January,Friday


select * from dbo.calendar ('1974-09-07','1974-09-10')
--results
id,date,month,day
1,1974-09-07 00:00:00.000,September,Saturday
2,1974-09-08 00:00:00.000,September,Sunday
3,1974-09-09 00:00:00.000,September,Monday
4,1974-09-10 00:00:00.000,September,Tuesday

Author: MAK

create function dbo.calendar (@startdate datetime, @enddate datetime)
returns @calendartable TABLE (id int identity(1,1),
		date datetime,
		month varchar(12), 
		day varchar(10))
as
BEGIN
--Author: MAK
--Objective: To display the calendar
--Date: April 1, 2002
declare @startdate1 datetime
set @startdate1 = @startdate
while @enddate >=@startdate1
	begin
	insert into @calendartable (date,month,day) 
	  values (@startdate1,datename(month,@startdate1),datename(dw,@startdate1))
	set @startdate1 =@startdate1+1
	end
return
END

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