Find last sunday

Question

How will you find last sunday of a month in sql 2000?

Answer 1

I find some of these solutions hard to understand so here's my version with variables to explain the steps.

ALTER FUNCTION dbo.fn_LastSundayInMonth
(
  @StartDate DATETIME
 ,@RequiredDayOfWeek INT    /* 1= Sunday */
)
RETURNS DATETIME
AS
/*
A detailed step by step way to get the answer...

SELECT dbo.fn_LastSundayInMonth(getdate()-31,1)
SELECT dbo.fn_LastSundayInMonth(getdate()-31,2)
SELECT dbo.fn_LastSundayInMonth(getdate()-31,3)
SELECT dbo.fn_LastSundayInMonth(getdate()-31,4)
SELECT dbo.fn_LastSundayInMonth(getdate()-31,5)
SELECT dbo.fn_LastSundayInMonth(getdate()-31,6)
SELECT dbo.fn_LastSundayInMonth(getdate()-31,7)
*/
BEGIN
    DECLARE @MonthsSince1900 INTEGER
    DECLARE @NextMonth INTEGER
    DECLARE @DaysToSubtract INTEGER
    DECLARE @FirstDayOfNextMonth DATETIME
    DECLARE @LastDayOfMonthDayOfWeek INTEGER
    DECLARE @LastDayOfMonth DATETIME
    DECLARE @ReturnValue DATETIME

    SET @MonthsSince1900=DateDiff(month, 0, @StartDate)
    SET @NextMonth=@MonthsSince1900+1
    SET @FirstDayOfNextMonth = DateAdd(month,@NextMonth, 0)
    SET @LastDayOfMonth = DateAdd(day, -1, @FirstDayOfNextMonth)

    SET @ReturnValue = @LastDayOfMonth

    WHILE DATEPART(dw, @ReturnValue) <> @RequiredDayOfWeek
        BEGIN
            SET @ReturnValue = DATEADD(DAY,-1, @ReturnValue)
        END

    RETURN @ReturnValue
END