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

This query generates a list of dates 4000 days in the future and 5000 in the past as of today (inspired on http://blogs.x2line.com/al/articles/207.aspx):

SELECT * FROM (SELECT
    (CONVERT(SMALLDATETIME, CONVERT(CHAR,GETDATE() ,103)) + 4000 -
                n4.num * 1000 -
                n3.num * 100 -
                n2.num * 10 -
                n1.num) AS Date, 
    year(CONVERT(SMALLDATETIME, CONVERT(CHAR,GETDATE() ,103)) + 4000 -
                n4.num * 1000 -
                n3.num * 100 -
                n2.num * 10 -
                n1.num) as Year,
    month(CONVERT(SMALLDATETIME, CONVERT(CHAR,GETDATE() ,103)) + 4000 -
                n4.num * 1000 -
                n3.num * 100 -
                n2.num * 10 -
                n1.num) as Month,
    day(CONVERT(SMALLDATETIME, CONVERT(CHAR,GETDATE() ,103)) + 4000 -
                n4.num * 1000 -
                n3.num * 100 -
                n2.num * 10 -
                n1.num) as Day
           FROM (SELECT 0 AS num union ALL
                 SELECT 1 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 2 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 3 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 4 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 5 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 6 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 7 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 8 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 9) n1
               ,(SELECT 0 AS num UNION ALL
                 SELECT 1 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 2 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 3 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 4 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 5 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 6 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 7 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 8 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 9) n2
               ,(SELECT 0 AS num union ALL
                 SELECT 1 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 2 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 3 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 4 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 5 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 6 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 7 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 8 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 9) n3  
               ,(SELECT 0 AS num UNION ALL
                 SELECT 1 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 2 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 3 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 4 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 5 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 6 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 7 UNION ALL
                 SELECT 8) n4
        ) GenCalendar  ORDER BY 1