Add business days to date in SQL without loops

Question

I currently have a function in my SQL database that adds a certain amount of business days to a date, e.g. if you enter a date that is a Thursday and add two days, it will r

Answer 1

Building off of the answer that was accepted for this question, the following user-defined function (UDF) should work in all cases--regardless of the setting for @@DateFirst.

UPDATE: As comments below indicate, this function is designed for the FromDate to be a weekday. The behavior is undefined when a weekend day is passed in as the FromDate.

ALTER FUNCTION [dbo].[BusinessDaysDateAdd] 
(
   @FromDate datetime,
   @DaysToAdd int
)
RETURNS datetime
AS
BEGIN
   DECLARE @Result datetime

   SET @Result = DATEADD(day, (@DaysToAdd % 5) + CASE ((@@DATEFIRST + DATEPART(weekday, @FromDate) + (@DaysToAdd % 5)) % 7)
                                                 WHEN 0 THEN 2
                                                 WHEN 1 THEN 1
                                                 ELSE 0 END, DATEADD(week, (@DaysToAdd / 5), @FromDate))

   RETURN @Result
END