How to get count of consecutive dates

Question

For example there is some table with dates:

2015-01-01
2015-01-02
2015-01-03
2015-01-06
2015-01-07
2015-01-11

I have to write ms sql query,

Answer 1

CREATE TABLE #T ( MyDate DATE) ;
INSERT #T VALUES ('2015-01-01'),('2015-01-02'),('2015-01-03'),('2015-01-06'),('2015-01-07'),('2015-01-11')

SELECT 
    RW=ROW_NUMBER() OVER( PARTITION BY GRP  ORDER BY MyDate) ,MyDate
FROM
(
SELECT 
    MyDate, DATEDIFF(Day, '1900-01-01' , MyDate)- ROW_NUMBER() OVER( ORDER BY MyDate ) AS GRP
FROM #T 
) A

DROP TABLE #T;