First business day of the current month - SQL Server - sql

Question

How could I get the first business day of the current month?
Without create a function, only select.
something like that:
SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(25),DATEADD(dd,-(DAY(GETDATE())-1), GETDATE()), 101)
somebody knows please?
Thanks.

Answer 1

A Simple case statement could do it
SELECT CASE
WHEN DATENAME(WEEKDAY, dateadd(mm, DATEDIFF(MM, 0, getdate()), 0)) = 'Saturday'
THEN dateadd(mm, DATEDIFF(MM, 0, getdate()), 0) + 2
WHEN DATENAME(WEEKDAY, dateadd(mm, DATEDIFF(MM, 0, getdate()), 0)) = 'Sunday'
THEN dateadd(mm, DATEDIFF(MM, 0, getdate()), 0) + 1
ELSE dateadd(mm, DATEDIFF(MM, 0, getdate()), 0)
END

Answer 2

This will literally give you what you're asking for -- the first business day in a month if we define a business day as "any day that's not a Saturday or a Sunday". But this is is a very narrow definition of "business day" that is not appropriate when taking into account holidays and cultural differences, so it generalizes poorly. The typical solution for this problem is to create a table that actually holds the working days (which is generated somewhere just before he year, or calculated in advance if that's feasible), and simply look it up in that.
SELECT DATEADD(DAY,
CASE
(DATEPART(WEEKDAY, DATEADD(MONTH, DATEDIFF(MONTH, 0, GETDATE()), 0)) + ##DATEFIRST - 1) % 7
WHEN 6 THEN 2
WHEN 7 THEN 1
ELSE 0
END,
DATEADD(MONTH, DATEDIFF(MONTH, 0, GETDATE()), 0)
)
This solution uses ##DATEFIRST to avoid any language issues -- using DATEPART(WEEKDAY, ...) on its own or DATENAME() only works if we assume a specific region.

Answer 3

If you have more flexibility in your SELECT statement, you might be able to use something like this:
;With Daterange As
(
Select DateAdd(Month, DateDiff(Month, 0, GetDate()), 0) As Date Union All
Select DateAdd(Day, 1, Date) As Date
From DateRange
Where Date < DateAdd(Day, 6, DateAdd(Month, DateDiff(Month, 0, GetDate()), 0))
)
Select Convert(Date, Min(Date)) FirstBusinessDay
From Daterange
Where DatePart(WeekDay, Date) Not In (7, 1)

Answer 4

Try this.
SELECT CASE
WHEN Datename(dw, Dateadd(dd, -Datepart(dd, Getdate()) + 1, Getdate())) = 'Saturday' THEN Dateadd(dd, -Datepart(dd, Getdate()) + 3, Getdate())
WHEN Datename(dw, Dateadd(dd, -Datepart(dd, Getdate()) + 1, Getdate())) = 'Sunday' THEN Dateadd(dd, -Datepart(dd, Getdate()) + 2, Getdate())
ELSE Dateadd(dd, -Datepart(dd, Getdate()) + 1, Getdate())
END
Explanation :
Find the first day of the month.
Dateadd(dd, -Datepart(dd, Getdate()) + 1, Getdate())
Then check the day of the previous date by using Datename function.
Datename(dw, Dateadd(dd, -Datepart(dd, Getdate()) + 1, Getdate()))
If the Datename is Saturday the add 2 days to the first day of the month . if it is sunday then add 1 day to the first day of the month else get the first day of the month