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

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select 
    d.firstOfMonth,
    MONTH(d.firstOfMonth) as Mon,
    YEAR(d.firstOfMonth) as Yr, 
    t.TransactionValue
from (
    select 
        dateadd( month, inMonths - 1, '1/1/2009') as firstOfMonth 
        from (
            values (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12)
        ) Dates(inMonths)
) d
outer apply (
    select top 1 TransactionValue
    from Transactions
    where TransactionDate <= d.firstOfMonth
    order by TransactionDate desc
) t