Function, procedure to find next "x" business days

Question

Hi,
Is there any function procedure to find next 10 business days in oracle.
Also i have a local holiday table which are non-working days.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi,
Ramin showed how to get the next 10 days.
If you want to exclude holidays and weekends, and get only the 10th day, then you can do something like this:
WITH     next_hundred_days     AS
     SELECT  TRUNC (SYSDATE) + LEVEL          AS bnsdate
     FROM      dual
     CONNECT BY     LEVEL <= 100
,     work_days          AS
     SELECT     n.bnsdate
     ,     ROW_NUMBER () OVER (ORDER BY bnsdate)     AS day_num
     FROM           next_hundred_days  n
     LEFT OUTER JOIN      holidays         h  ON  h.dt  = n.bnsdate
     WHERE   TO_CHAR ( bnsdate
               , 'Dy'
               , 'NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE=ENGLISH'
               )     NOT IN ('SAT', 'SUN')
     AND     h.dt          IS NULL
SELECT  bnsdate
FROM     work_days
WHERE     day_num     = 10
;This assumes that there will be at least 10 work days in the next 100 days. Where I work, that's a very safe assumption.
I hope this answers your question.
If not, post CREATE TABLE and INSERT statements for a few rows from your holiday table.
Post a few (starting date, number of days) pairs, and the results that you would want from each pair, given the data you posted in the holiday table.
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