How to get the weekends days for a specific date range

Question

I want to select list of only weekend dates from a given date range. Is it possible in SQL?
For example if the range is '08/01/2011' and '08/30/2011'
I want a list
08/06/2011
08/07/2011
08/13/2011
08/14/2011
08/20/2011
08/21/2011
08/27/2011
08/28/2011Thank You, Naveen email:[email protected]

Answer 1

First and easy to do is having a Calendar table, which over there you can have those information.
http://arbibaghdanian.blogspot.com/2011/05/calendar-table.html
Declare @beginDate Date, @EndDate Date
Select @beginDate = '08/01/2011', @EndDate = '08/31/2011'
Declare @Calendar Table
(CalendarDate Date Primary key, IsWeekend Bit, YearNo SmallInt, QuarterNo TinyInt, MonthNo TinyInt, DayOfYearNo SmallInt, DayNo TinyInt, WeekNo TinyInt, WeekDayNo TinyInt)
While @beginDate <= @endDate
Begin
Insert Into @Calendar
Select
@beginDate As CalendarDate
,(Case When DATEPART(Weekday, @beginDate) In (7, 1) Then 1 Else 0 End) As IsWeekend
,DATEPART(Year, @beginDate) As YearNo
,DATEPART(QUARTER, @beginDate) As QuarterNo
,DATEPART(MONTH, @beginDate) As MonthNo
,DATEPART(DayOfYear, @beginDate) As DayOfYearNo
,DATEPART(Day, @beginDate) As DayNo
,DATEPART(Week, @beginDate) As WeekNo
,DATEPART(WEEKDAY, @beginDate) As WeekDayNo
Set @beginDate = DateAdd(Day, 1, @beginDate)
End
Select * From @Calendar Where IsWeekend = 1
Best Wishes, Arbi --- MCC 2011; Please vote if you find this posting was helpful or Mark it as answered.