How to Determine Values for Missing Months based on Data of Previous Months in T-SQL

Question

I have a set of transactions occurring at specific points in time:

CREATE TABLE Transactions (
    TransactionDate Date NOT NULL,
    TransactionValue Intege         


        

Answer 1

If you do this type of analysis often, you might be interested in this SQL Server function I put together for exactly this purpose:

if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where name = 'fn_daterange') drop function fn_daterange;
go

create function fn_daterange
   (
   @MinDate as datetime,
   @MaxDate as datetime,
   @intval  as datetime
   )
returns table
--**************************************************************************
-- Procedure: fn_daterange()
--    Author: Ron Savage
--      Date: 12/16/2008
--
-- Description:
-- This function takes a starting and ending date and an interval, then
-- returns a table of all the dates in that range at the specified interval.
--
-- Change History:
-- Date        Init. Description
-- 12/16/2008  RS    Created.
-- **************************************************************************
as
return
   WITH times (startdate, enddate, intervl) AS
      (
      SELECT @MinDate as startdate, @MinDate + @intval - .0000001 as enddate, @intval as intervl
         UNION ALL
      SELECT startdate + intervl as startdate, enddate + intervl as enddate, intervl as intervl
      FROM times
      WHERE startdate + intervl <= @MaxDate
      )
   select startdate, enddate from times;

go

it was an answer to this question, which also has some sample output from it.