Whenever you’re building a data warehouse or similar solution, you’ll probably want to have a “calendar dimension”, a table that contains all days in a range of years. A challenge with this type of table is getting all the public holidays right, which could be particularly important if your business depends on this, like financial markets or logistics.
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Calculating the date of easter sunday
We’ve previously looked at how to calculate recurring public holidays. However, calculating the date of easter sunday is not as simple as you might think, because it involves calculations of lunar phases. This short post contains a T-SQL translation of the popularly used Meeus-Jones-Butcher formula.