Have you ever needed to generate a list of dates for the last 30 days. There are lots of different ways to do this with TSQL, but one way is with a CTE, where you can then left join against it with another query to generate a list of all dates in a result set, along with the dates for the last 30 days that aren’t in the result set.
DECLARE @today as date; DECLARE @30ago as date; select @today = DATEADD(DAY, 0, DATEDIFF(DAY, 0, getdate())), @30ago = DATEADD(DAY, 0, DATEDIFF(DAY, 0, getdate() - 30)); ;WITH Last30DaysCTE as ( SELECT @30Ago as CalendarDate UNION ALL SELECT dateadd(day , 1, CalendarDate) AS CalendarDate FROM Last30DaysCTE WHERE dateadd (day, 1, CalendarDate) < @today ) SELECT * FROM Last30DaysCTE OPTION (MAXRECURSION 30);
Which creates this list.
Just a quick CTE that can be very useful when generating a report.
Enjoy…
Steve Stedman
-Bellingham WA
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Thanks.
Exccellent. Works flawlessly.
Could have been easier to understand if the variable names would have been named @StartPeriod and another one would have been @NumOfDays. That way this could have been more generic and easier to suit more needs for forward and backwards dates.
Thanks again