Calculate last days of months for given period in SQL Server - sql

Question

Is it possible to do in SQL: for example I have period where #s_date = '20130101' and #e_date = '20130601' and I want to select all last days of months in this period.
This is example of result:
20130131
20130228
20130331
20130430
20130531
Thanks.

Answer 1

The easiest option is to have a calendar table, with a last day of the month flag, so your query would simply be:
SELECT *
FROM dbo.Calendar
WHERE Date >= #StartDate
AND Date <= #EndDate
AND EndOfMonth = 1;
Assuming of course that you don't have a calendar table you can generate a list of dates on the fly:'
DECLARE #s_date DATE = '20130101',
#e_date DATE = '20130601';
SELECT Date = DATEADD(DAY, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY Object_ID) - 1, #s_date)
FROM sys.all_objects;
Then once you have your dates you can limit them to where the date is the last day of the month (where adding one day makes it the first of the month):
DECLARE #s_date DATE = '20130101',
#e_date DATE = '20130601';
WITH Dates AS
( SELECT Date = DATEADD(DAY, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY Object_ID) - 1, #s_date)
FROM sys.all_objects
)
SELECT *
FROM Dates
WHERE Date <= #e_Date
AND DATEPART(DAY, DATEADD(DAY, 1, Date)) = 1;
Example on SQL Fiddle

Answer 2

You can run the following query and then adjust it by using your table details:
declare #s_date as datetime= '20130101'
declare #e_date as datetime= '20131020'
SELECT DateAdd(m, number, '1990-01-31')
FROM master.dbo.spt_values
WHERE 'P' = type
AND DateAdd(m, number, #s_date) < #e_date

Answer 3

example for 20130101 :
select CONVERT(VARCHAR(8),
dateadd(day, -1, dateadd(month, 1,
convert(datetime, '20130101',112))), 112)
result :
20130131

Answer 4

Try this query
WITH sample
AS (SELECT Cast('2013-04-01' AS DATETIME) Date
UNION ALL
SELECT Dateadd(day, 1, date) dt
FROM sample
WHERE date < Cast('2013-05-05' AS DATETIME))
SELECT *
FROM sample
Fiddle

Answer 5

EOMONTH(#date) is the function you need.
Here is the help page https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/eomonth-transact-sql?view=sql-server-2017
This query gets the las 50 End Of Months.
The original query used as an example is from here.
https://dba.stackexchange.com/a/186829
WITH cte AS
(
SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY (SELECT 1)) - 1 AS [Incrementor]
FROM [master].[sys].[columns] sc1
CROSS JOIN [master].[sys].[columns] sc2
)
SELECT top 50 EOMONTH(DATEADD(Month, -1 * cte.[Incrementor], GETDATE()))
FROM cte
WHERE EOMONTH(DATEADD(Month, -1 * cte.[Incrementor], GETDATE())) < GETDATE();