SDU Tools: Dates Between No Weekends

The DatesBetweenNoWeekends function in our free SDU Tools for developers and DBAs, is really popular. It provides a range of dates between starting and ending dates, ignoring weekends.

DatesBetweenNoWeekends is a simple table-valued function that takes two parameters:

@StartDate - the first date to return @EndDate - the last date to return

The columns returned are:

DateNumber - a sequential number for the dates returned DateValue - the date

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You can see it in action in the main image above, and in the video here. The full current version of the code is also shown below:

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Latest version of the code

Note: the code might wrap when displayed below.

CREATE  FUNCTION [SDU_Tools].[DatesBetweenNoWeekends]
(
    @StartDate date,
    @EndDate date 
)
RETURNS @Dates TABLE
(
    DateNumber int IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY,
    DateValue date
)
AS
-- Function:      Returns a table of dates excluding weekends
-- Parameters:    @StartDate date => first date to return
-- @EndDate => last date to return
-- Action:        Returns a table of dates between the two dates supplied (inclusive)
-- but excluding Saturday and Sunday
-- Return:        Rowset with DateNumber as int and DateValue as a date
-- Refer to this video: https://youtu.be/m5GtvUHXOFQ
--
-- Test examples: 
/*

SELECT * FROM SDU_Tools.DatesBetweenNoWeekends('20200101', '20200131') ORDER BY DateValue;
SELECT * FROM SDU_Tools.DatesBetweenNoWeekends('20200131', '20200101') ORDER BY DateValue;

*/
BEGIN
    DECLARE @CurrentValue date = @StartDate;

    WHILE @CurrentValue <= @EndDate 
    BEGIN
        IF DATEPART(weekday, @CurrentValue) NOT IN (DATEPART(weekday, '19000107'), DATEPART(weekday, '19000106'))
        BEGIN
            INSERT @Dates (DateValue) VALUES (@CurrentValue);
        END;
        SET @CurrentValue = DATEADD(day, 1, @CurrentValue);
    END;

    RETURN;
END;
GO

2020-05-20