SDU Tools: Calculate Date Dimension columns in SQL Server T-SQL

When you’re building a data warehouse using SQL Server, one of the first things that most people start to design is a Date dimension. To make that really, really easy, in our free SDU Tools for developers and DBAs, we added a tool called DateDimensionColumns.

This tool is a table-valued function that takes a date, and returns a set of columns that many will find enough for a good Date dimension. You can see the list of returned columns in the main image above.

Range of Dates

If you then combine it with our DatesBetween tool that returns a set of dates between a start and end date, by using CROSS APPLY, you have a nearly complete solution for creating a date dimension.

And that’s exactly what another of our tools GetDateDimension does!

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You can see it in action in the main image above, and see both tools in the video here:

You can see GetDateDimension here:

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2019-07-31