Fill In The Date Gaps With Date Table

Question

I have two tables.

An orders table with customer, and date. A date dimension table from a data warehouse.

The orders table does not contain activity for ev

Answer 1

You can use recursive CTE to get all dates between two dates without need for datetable:

;WITH CTE_MinMax AS
(
    SELECT Customer, MIN(DATE) AS MinDate, MAX(DATE) AS MaxDate
    FROM dbo.orders
    GROUP BY Customer
)
,CTE_Dates AS
(
    SELECT Customer, MinDate AS Date
    FROM CTE_MinMax
    UNION ALL
    SELECT c.Customer, DATEADD(DD,1,Date) FROM CTE_Dates c
    INNER JOIN CTE_MinMax mm ON c.Customer = mm.Customer
    WHERE DATEADD(DD,1,Date) <= mm.MaxDate
)
SELECT c.* , COALESCE(o.Amount, 0)
FROM CTE_Dates c
LEFT JOIN Orders o ON c.Customer = o.Customer AND c.Date = o.Date
ORDER BY Customer, Date
OPTION (MAXRECURSION 0)

SQLFiddle DEMO