I wish the DATEDIFF() function would count the number of working days (mondays through fridays) between two dates for me, but until that happens, I’ve had to roll my own scalar function. I tried to think of a smart way involving perhaps a modulus calculation, but I quickly succumbed to a more down-to-earth approach.
Tag: weekday
A function to calculate recurring dates
When you’re using Microsoft Outlook, or pretty much any other personal information manager, you can create calendar appointments that are “recurring”, i.e. you can have them repeat at a defined frequency. This, however may not only apply to your project meeting appointments, but also to some database solution. I decided to give it a go at building a table value function that returns a list of dates, based on a given set of parameters.
Weeks and weekday parts in dates
Here are two common pitfalls that you may encounter when it comes to working with dates, specifically with week numbers and weekdays. The first is to mistake week numbers in SQL Server for ISO week numbers (which are the weeknumbers used in Sweden, for instance). The other is to make assumptions about which day of the week is the first. The good news is that these are relatively easy fixes.