How to generate date series to occupy absent dates in google BiqQuery?

Question

I am trying to get daily sum of sales from a google big-query table. I used following code for that.

select Day(InvoiceDate) date, Sum(InvoiceAmount) sales f         


        

Answer 1

You can use below to generate on fly all dates in given range (in below example it is all dates from 2015-06-01 till CURRENT_DATE() - by changing those you can control which dates range to generate)

SELECT DATE(DATE_ADD(TIMESTAMP("2015-06-01"), pos - 1, "DAY")) AS calendar_day
FROM (
     SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER() AS pos, *
     FROM (FLATTEN((
     SELECT SPLIT(RPAD('', 1 + DATEDIFF(TIMESTAMP(CURRENT_DATE()), TIMESTAMP("2015-06-01")), '.'),'') AS h
     FROM (SELECT NULL)),h
)))

so, now - you can use it with LEFT JOIN with your table to have all dates accounted. See potential example below

SELECT
  calendar_day,
  IFNULL(sales, 0) AS sales
FROM (
  SELECT DATE(DATE_ADD(TIMESTAMP("2015-06-01"), pos - 1, "DAY")) AS calendar_day
  FROM (
       SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER() AS pos, *
       FROM (FLATTEN((
       SELECT SPLIT(RPAD('', 1 + DATEDIFF(TIMESTAMP(CURRENT_DATE()), TIMESTAMP("2015-06-01")), '.'),'') AS h
       FROM (SELECT NULL)),h
  )))
) AS all_dates
LEFT JOIN (
  SELECT DAY(InvoiceDate) DATE, SUM(InvoiceAmount) sales 
  FROM test_gmail_com.sales 
  WHERE YEAR(InvoiceDate) = YEAR(CURRENT_DATE()) AND
  MONTH(InvoiceDate) = MONTH(CURRENT_DATE())
  GROUP BY DATE 
)
ON DATE = calendar_day  

I wanna need to get previous months sales

Below gives all days of previous month

SELECT DATE(DATE_ADD(DATE_ADD(DATE_ADD(CURRENT_DATE(), -1, "MONTH"), 1 - DAY(CURRENT_DATE()), "DAY"), pos - 1, "DAY")) AS calendar_day
FROM (
     SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER() AS pos, *
     FROM (FLATTEN((
     SELECT SPLIT(RPAD('', 1 + DATEDIFF(DATE_ADD(CURRENT_DATE(), - DAY(CURRENT_DATE()), "DAY"), DATE_ADD(DATE_ADD(CURRENT_DATE(), -1, "MONTH"), 1 - DAY(CURRENT_DATE()), "DAY")), '.'),'') AS h
     FROM (SELECT NULL)),h
)))