How do I determine a public holiday in Sql server?

Question

I have an application written in c# that cannot run on a public holiday or a weekend. I\'ve looked around a bit and haven\'t found anywhere (official) that provides all the

Answer 1

As far as I know there isn't any 'official' source, and this is indeed highly dependent on locale. You'd have to manage these manually. A good source seems to be:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_holidays_by_country

Even under these circumstances it's very tricky to manage. For example, I live in Belgium, and different parts of the country have different holidays. Government workers for example have different holidays compared to the rest of the workforce, and this is in the same locale code.