Calculate the number of business days between two dates?

Question

In C#, how can I calculate the number of business (or weekdays) days between two dates?

Answer 1

I was having trouble finding a solid TSQL version of this code. Below is essentially a conversion of the C# code here with addition of the Holiday table which should be used to pre-calculate holidays.

CREATE TABLE dbo.Holiday
(
    HolidayDt       DATE NOT NULL,
    Name            NVARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
    IsWeekday       BIT NOT NULL,
    CONSTRAINT PK_Holiday PRIMARY KEY (HolidayDt)
)
GO
CREATE INDEX IDX_Holiday ON Holiday (HolidayDt, IsWeekday)

GO

CREATE function dbo.GetBusinessDays
(
     @FirstDay  datetime,
     @LastDay   datetime
) 
RETURNS INT
 AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @BusinessDays INT, @FullWeekCount INT 
    SELECT  @FirstDay = CONVERT(DATETIME,CONVERT(DATE,@FirstDay))
        ,   @LastDay = CONVERT(DATETIME,CONVERT(DATE,@LastDay))

    IF @FirstDay > @LastDay
        RETURN NULL;

    SELECT @BusinessDays = DATEDIFF(DAY, @FirstDay, @LastDay) + 1 
    SELECT @FullWeekCount = @BusinessDays / 7;

    -- find out if there are weekends during the time exceedng the full weeks
    IF @BusinessDays > (@FullWeekCount * 7)
    BEGIN
    -- we are here to find out if there is a 1-day or 2-days weekend
    -- in the time interval remaining after subtracting the complete weeks
        DECLARE @firstDayOfWeek INT, @lastDayOfWeek INT;
        SELECT @firstDayOfWeek = DATEPART(DW, @FirstDay), @lastDayOfWeek = DATEPART(DW, @LastDay);

        IF @lastDayOfWeek < @firstDayOfWeek
                SELECT @lastDayOfWeek = @lastDayOfWeek + 7;

        IF @firstDayOfWeek <= 6 
            BEGIN
                IF (@lastDayOfWeek >= 7) --Both Saturday and Sunday are in the remaining time interval
                    BEGIN 
                        SELECT @BusinessDays = @BusinessDays - 2
                    END
                ELSE IF @lastDayOfWeek>=6 --Only Saturday is in the remaining time interval
                    BEGIN
                        SELECT @BusinessDays = @BusinessDays - 1
                    END

            END
        ELSE IF @firstDayOfWeek <= 7 AND @lastDayOfWeek >=7 -- Only Sunday is in the remaining time interval
        BEGIN 
            SELECT @BusinessDays = @BusinessDays - 1
        END
    END

    -- subtract the weekends during the full weeks in the interval
    DECLARE @Holidays INT;
    SELECT  @Holidays = COUNT(*) 
    FROM    Holiday 
    WHERE   HolidayDt BETWEEN @FirstDay AND @LastDay 
    AND     IsWeekday = CAST(1 AS BIT)

    SELECT @BusinessDays = @BusinessDays - (@FullWeekCount + @FullWeekCount) -- - @Holidays

    RETURN @BusinessDays
END