SQL Server - Split year into 4 weekly periods - sql

Question

I would like to split up the year into 13 periods with 4 weeks in each
52 weeks a year / 4 = 13 even periods
I would like each period to start on a saturday and end on a friday.
It should look like the below image
Obviously I could do this manually, but the dates would change each year and I am looking for a way to automate this with SQL rather than manually do this for each upcoming year
Is there a way to produce this yearly split automatically?

Answer 1

In this previous answer I show an approach to create a numbers/date table. Such a table is very handsome in many places.
With this approach you might try something like this:
CREATE TABLE dbo.RunningNumbers(Number INT NOT NULL,CalendarDate DATE NOT NULL, CalendarYear INT NOT NULL,CalendarMonth INT NOT NULL,CalendarDay INT NOT NULL, CalendarWeek INT NOT NULL, CalendarYearDay INT NOT NULL, CalendarWeekDay INT NOT NULL);
DECLARE #CountEntries INT = 100000;
DECLARE #StartNumber INT = 0;
WITH E1(N) AS(SELECT 1 FROM(VALUES (1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1))t(N)), --10 ^ 1
E2(N) AS(SELECT 1 FROM E1 a CROSS JOIN E1 b), -- 10 ^ 2 = 100 rows
E4(N) AS(SELECT 1 FROM E2 a CROSS JOIN E2 b), -- 10 ^ 4 = 10,000 rows
E8(N) AS(SELECT 1 FROM E4 a CROSS JOIN E4 b), -- 10 ^ 8 = 10,000,000 rows
CteTally AS
(
SELECT TOP(ISNULL(#CountEntries,1000000)) ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY(SELECT NULL)) -1 + ISNULL(#StartNumber,0) As Nmbr
FROM E8
)
INSERT INTO dbo.RunningNumbers
SELECT CteTally.Nmbr,CalendarDate.d,CalendarExt.*
FROM CteTally
CROSS APPLY
(
SELECT DATEADD(DAY,CteTally.Nmbr,{ts'1900-01-01 00:00:00'})
) AS CalendarDate(d)
CROSS APPLY
(
SELECT YEAR(CalendarDate.d) AS CalendarYear
,MONTH(CalendarDate.d) AS CalendarMonth
,DAY(CalendarDate.d) AS CalendarDay
,DATEPART(WEEK,CalendarDate.d) AS CalendarWeek
,DATEPART(DAYOFYEAR,CalendarDate.d) AS CalendarYearDay
,DATEPART(WEEKDAY,CalendarDate.d) AS CalendarWeekDay
) AS CalendarExt;
GO
NTILE - SQL Server 2008+ will create (almost) even chunks.
This the actual query
SELECT *,NTILE(13) OVER(ORDER BY CalendarDate) AS Periode
FROM RunningNumbers
WHERE CalendarWeekDay=6
AND CalendarDate>={d'2017-01-01'} AND CalendarDate <= {d'2017-12-31'};
GO
--Carefull with existing data!
--DROP TABLE dbo.RunningNumbers;
Hint 1: Place indexes!
Hint 2: Read the link about NTILE, especially the Remark-section.
I think this will fit for this case. You might think about using Prdp's approach with ROW_NUMBER() in conncetion with INT division. But - big advantage! - NTILE would allow PARTITION BY CalendarYear.
Hint 3: You might add a column to the table
...where you set the period's number as a fix value. This will make future queries very easy and would allow manual correction on special cases (53rd week..)

Answer 2

Here is one way using Calendar table
DECLARE #start DATE = '2017-04-01',
#end_date DATE = '2017-12-31'
SET DATEFIRST 7;
WITH Calendar
AS (SELECT 1 AS id,
#start AS start_date,
Dateadd(dd, 6, #start) AS end_date
UNION ALL
SELECT id + 1,
Dateadd(week, 1, start_date),
Dateadd(week, 1, end_date)
FROM Calendar
WHERE end_date < #end_date)
SELECT id,
( Row_number()OVER(ORDER BY id) - 1 ) / 4 + 1 AS Period,
start_date,
end_date
FROM Calendar
OPTION (maxrecursion 0)
I have generated dates using Recursive CTE but it is better to create a physical calendar table use it in queries like this

Answer 3

Firstly, you will never get 52 even weeks in a year, there are overlap weeks in most calendar standards. You will occasionally get a week 53.
You can tell SQL to use Saturday as the first day of the week with datefirst, then running a datepart on today's date with getdate() will tell you the week of the year:
SET datefirst 6 -- 6 is Saturday
SELECT datepart(ww,getdate()) as currentWeek
You could then divide this by 4 with a CEILING command to get the 4-week split:
SET datefirst 6
SELECT DATEPART(ww,getdate()) as currentWeek,
CEILING(DATEPART(ww,getdate())/4) as four_week_split