SDU Tools: Time Periods Between in SQL Server T-SQL
As part of our free SDU Tools for developers and DBAs, we have a function that generates dimension columns for individual time periods. To make that easy to use across a range of times in day, we’ve added a function called TimePeriodsBetween.
It’s a table-valued function that takes three parameters:
@StartTime time is the first time to return @EndTime is the last time to be returned @MinutesPerPeriod is the number of minutes in each time period for the day (e.g. it’s 15 for every quarter of an hour)
For each time period, it returns a key (an incrementing number for the position of the time period within the entire day), and the time.
You can use our tools as a set or as a great example of how to write functions like these.
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You can see it in action in the main image above, and in the video here:
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2020-01-22