Find last sunday

Question

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

Answer 1

Holy cow, this is ugly, but here goes:

DECLARE @dtDate DATETIME
SET @dtDate = '2009-11-05'

SELECT DATEADD(dd, -1*(DATEPART(dw, DateAdd(day, -1, DateAdd(month, DateDiff(month, 0, @dtDate)+1, 0)))-1),
            DateAdd(day, -1, DateAdd(month, DateDiff(month, 0, @dtDate)+1, 0)))