How to get max Saturday dates in a column of each month, without hardcoding - sql

Question

How to get max Saturday dates in a column of each month in SQL Server. Can someone please help me.
Now I need only the dates which has last Saturday of month.
For example,
The table has
07-08-2021 - Saturday
14-08-2021 - Saturday
21-08-2021 - Saturday
28-08-2021 - Saturday
04-09-2021 - Saturday
11-09-2021 - Saturday
18-09-2021 - Saturday
25-09-2021 - Saturday
Suppose we are in August month, I need to select last Saturday of that month( ONLY 28-08-2021)
Suppose we are in September month, I need to select last Saturday of that month( ONLY 25-09-2021)
Output:
28-08-2021
25-09-2021

Answer 1

assuming you have a datefield in your table (I will refer to it here as such in the below query)
with week as (
select
date_trunc('week', datefield + interval '2 day') - interval '2 day' as week_date
-- ^this adjusts the week date_trunc to start on Saturday (it starts on Monday by default)
from sometable
)
select
extract(month from week_date) as month_num,
max(week_date) as last_saturday
from week
group by month_num
note: if you only have partial data for the current month, this query will need to be altered slightly, but you didn't give me a lot to go off of here

Answer 2

A CTE is defined to populate the day name of entire month and then the requirement is filtered.
;with GetDates As (
select CAST('01-01-2021' as date) as StartDate, datename(dw, '09-01-2021') as Day_Name
UNION ALL
select DATEADD(day,1, StartDate), datename(dw, DATEADD(day,1, StartDate))
from GetDates
where StartDate < '09-30-2021'
)
select max(StartDate)
from GetDates where Day_Name = 'Saturday'
group by month(StartDate)
OPTION (MAXRECURSION 500)

Answer 3

Here is a function to calculate the Nth Weekday - which can calculate from the beginning of the month or from the end of the month.
Alter Function dbo.fnGetNthWeekDay (
#theDate datetime
, #theWeekday int
, #theNthDay int
)
Returns Table
As
Return
/*
Adapted from a version published by Peter Larrson - with minor modifications for performance
and restructured to eliminate usage of a derived table.
Inputs:
#theDate any date in the month
#theWeekday the weekday to calculate: 1 = Monday
2 = Tuesday
3 = Wednesday
4 = Thursday
5 = Friday
6 = Saturday
7 = Sunday
#theNthDay the week count where positive is from beginning of the month
and negative is from end of month
Outputs:
#theDate the date entered
#theNthDate the Nth date of the month
*/
Select theDate = #theDate
, dt.nthDate
From (Values (dateadd(month, datediff(month, #theNthDay, #theDate), 0))) As mm(FirstOfMonth)
Cross Apply (Values (dateadd(day, 7 * #theNthDay - 7 * sign(#theNthDay + 1)
+ (#theWeekday + 6 - datediff(day, -53690, mm.FirstOfMonth) % 7) % 7, mm.FirstOfMonth))) As dt(nthDate)
Where #theWeekday Between 1 And 7
And datediff(month, dt.nthDate, #theDate) = 0
And #theNthDay In (-5, -4, -3, -2, -1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
Go
You can then call it like this:
Select * From dbo.fnGetNthWeekDay('2021-08-15', 6, -1) nwd