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

Have you thought about pre-populating a look-up table that contains all of the working days (using your function) , for example WorkingDays(int DaySequenceId, Date WorkingDate), you can then use this table by selecting the DaySequenceId of the @fromDate and add @daysToAdd to get the new working date. Obviously this method also has the additional overhead of administering the WorkingDays table, but you could pre-populate it with the range of dates you expect. The other downside is the working dates that can be calculated will only be those contained within the WorkingDays table.