Generate a range of dates using SQL

Question

I have a SQL query that takes a date parameter (if I were to throw it into a function) and I need to run it on every day of the last year.

How to generate a list of

Answer 1

A method quite frequently used in Oracle is something like this:

select trunc(sysdate)-rn
from
(   select rownum rn
    from   dual
    connect by level <= 365)
/

Personally, if an application has a need for a list of dates then I'd just create a table with them, or create a table with a series of integers up to something ridiculous like one million that can be used for this sort of thing.