Find last sunday - sql

Question

How will you find last sunday of a month in sql 2000?

Answer 1

SELECT
DATEADD(day,DATEDIFF(day,'19000107',DATEADD(month,DATEDIFF(MONTH,0,GETDATE() /*YourValuehere*/),30))/7*7,'19000107')
Edit: A correct, final, working answer from my colleague.

Answer 2

select dateadd(day,1-datepart(dw, getdate()), getdate())

Answer 3

An alternative approach, borrowed from data warehousing practice. Create a date-dimension table and pre-load it for 10 years, or so.
TABLE dimDate (DateKey, FullDate, Day, Month, Year, DayOfWeek,
DayInEpoch, MonthName, LastDayInMonthIndicator, many more..)
The easiest way to fill-in the dimDate is to spend an afternoon with Excel and then import to DB from there. A half-decent dimDate table has 50+ columns -- anything you ever wanted to know about a date.
With this in place, the question becomes something like:
SELECT max(FullDate)
FROM dimDate
WHERE DayOfWeek = 'Sunday'
AND Month = 11
AND Year = 2009;
Essentially, all date related queries become simpler.

Answer 4

Next sunday in SQL, regardless which day is first day of week: returns 2011-01-02 23:59:59.000 on 22-dec-2010:
select DateADD(ss, -1, DATEADD(week, DATEDIFF(week, 0, getdate()), 14))

Answer 5

I find some of these solutions hard to understand so here's my version with variables to explain the steps.
ALTER FUNCTION dbo.fn_LastSundayInMonth
(
#StartDate DATETIME
,#RequiredDayOfWeek INT /* 1= Sunday */
)
RETURNS DATETIME
AS
/*
A detailed step by step way to get the answer...
SELECT dbo.fn_LastSundayInMonth(getdate()-31,1)
SELECT dbo.fn_LastSundayInMonth(getdate()-31,2)
SELECT dbo.fn_LastSundayInMonth(getdate()-31,3)
SELECT dbo.fn_LastSundayInMonth(getdate()-31,4)
SELECT dbo.fn_LastSundayInMonth(getdate()-31,5)
SELECT dbo.fn_LastSundayInMonth(getdate()-31,6)
SELECT dbo.fn_LastSundayInMonth(getdate()-31,7)
*/
BEGIN
DECLARE #MonthsSince1900 INTEGER
DECLARE #NextMonth INTEGER
DECLARE #DaysToSubtract INTEGER
DECLARE #FirstDayOfNextMonth DATETIME
DECLARE #LastDayOfMonthDayOfWeek INTEGER
DECLARE #LastDayOfMonth DATETIME
DECLARE #ReturnValue DATETIME
SET #MonthsSince1900=DateDiff(month, 0, #StartDate)
SET #NextMonth=#MonthsSince1900+1
SET #FirstDayOfNextMonth = DateAdd(month,#NextMonth, 0)
SET #LastDayOfMonth = DateAdd(day, -1, #FirstDayOfNextMonth)
SET #ReturnValue = #LastDayOfMonth
WHILE DATEPART(dw, #ReturnValue) <> #RequiredDayOfWeek
BEGIN
SET #ReturnValue = DATEADD(DAY,-1, #ReturnValue)
END
RETURN #ReturnValue
END

Answer 6

DECLARE #LastDateOfMonth smalldatetime
SELECT #LastDateOfMonth = DATEADD(month, DATEDIFF(month, -1, GETDATE()), 0) -1
Select DATEADD(dd,-( CASE WHEN DATEPART(weekday,#LastDateOfMonth) = 1 THEN 0 ELSE DATEPART(weekday,#LastDateOfMonth) - 1 END ),#LastDateOfMonth)

Answer 7

Holy cow, this is ugly, but here goes:
DECLARE #dtDate DATETIME
SET #dtDate = '2009-11-05'
SELECT DATEADD(dd, -1*(DATEPART(dw, DateAdd(day, -1, DateAdd(month, DateDiff(month, 0, #dtDate)+1, 0)))-1),
DateAdd(day, -1, DateAdd(month, DateDiff(month, 0, #dtDate)+1, 0)))

Answer 8

First built a tally table.
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/62867/
then get what you want..
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic515226-1291-1.aspx
DECLARE #DateStart DATETIME,
#DateEnd DATETIME
SELECT #DateStart = '20080131',
#DateEnd = '20101201'
SELECT DATEADD(wk,DATEDIFF(wk,6,DATEADD(mm,DATEDIFF(mm,-1,DATEADD(mm,t.N-1,#DateStart)),-1)),6)
FROM dbo.Tally t
WHERE t.N <= DATEDIFF(mm,#DateStart,#DateEnd)

Answer 9

Here's the correct way, accounting for ##DATEFIRST
IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[fu_dtLastSundayInMonth]') AND type in (N'FN', N'IF', N'TF', N'FS', N'FT'))
BEGIN
EXECUTE(N'CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[fu_dtLastSundayInMonth]() RETURNS int BEGIN RETURN 0 END ')
END
GO
/*
SET DATEFIRST 3; -- Monday
WITH CTE AS (
SELECT 1 AS i, CAST('20190101' AS datetime) AS mydate
UNION ALL
SELECT i+1 AS i, DATEADD(month, 1, CTE.mydate) AS mydate
FROM CTE WHERE i < 100
)
SELECT -666 AS i, dbo.fu_dtLastSundayInMonth('17530101') AS lastSundayInMonth, dbo.fu_dtLastSundayInMonth('17530101') AS Control
UNION ALL
SELECT -666 AS i, dbo.fu_dtLastSundayInMonth('99991231') AS lastSundayInMonth, dbo.fu_dtLastSundayInMonth('99991231') AS Control
UNION ALL
SELECT
mydate
,dbo.fu_dtLastSundayInMonth(mydate) AS lastSundayInMonth
,dbo.fu_dtLastSundayInMonth(mydate) AS lastSundayInMonth
,DATEADD(day,DATEDIFF(day,'19000107', DATEADD(MONTH, DATEDIFF(MONTH, 0, mydate, 30))/7*7,'19000107') AS Control
FROM CTE
*/
-- =====================================================================
-- Description: Return date of last sunday in month
-- of the same year and month as #in_DateTime
-- =====================================================================
ALTER FUNCTION [dbo].[fu_dtLastSundayInMonth](#in_DateTime datetime )
RETURNS DateTime
AS
BEGIN
-- Abrunden des Eingabedatums auf 00:00:00 Uhr
DECLARE #dtReturnValue AS DateTime
-- 26.12.9999 SO
IF #in_DateTime >= CAST('99991201' AS datetime)
RETURN CAST('99991226' AS datetime);
-- #dtReturnValue is now last day of month
SET #dtReturnValue = DATEADD
(
DAY
,-1
,DATEADD
(
MONTH
,1
,CAST(CAST(YEAR(#in_DateTime) AS varchar(4)) + RIGHT('00' + CAST(MONTH(#in_DateTime) AS varchar(2)), 2) + '01' AS datetime)
)
)
;
-- SET DATEFIRST 1 -- Monday - Super easy !
-- SET DATEFIRST != 1 - PHUK THIS !
SET #dtReturnValue = DATEADD
(
day
,
-
(
(
-- DATEPART(WEEKDAY, #lastDayofMonth) -- with SET DATEFIRST 1
DATEPART(WEEKDAY, #dtReturnValue) + ##DATEFIRST - 2 % 7 + 1
)
%7
)
, #dtReturnValue
);
RETURN #dtReturnValue;
END
GO

Answer 10

select next_day(last_day(sysdate)-7, 'Sunday') from dual