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

here's what i came up with

declare @Transactions table (TransactionDate datetime, TransactionValue int)

declare @MinDate datetime
declare @MaxDate datetime
declare @iDate datetime
declare @Month int
declare @count int
declare @i int
declare @PrevLvl int

insert into @Transactions (TransactionDate, TransactionValue)
select '1/1/09',1

insert into @Transactions (TransactionDate, TransactionValue)
select '3/1/09',2

insert into @Transactions (TransactionDate, TransactionValue)
select '5/1/09',3


select @MinDate = min(TransactionDate) from @Transactions
select @MaxDate = max(TransactionDate) from @Transactions

set @count=datediff(mm,@MinDate,@MaxDate)
set @i=1
set @iDate=@MinDate


while (@i<=@count)
begin

    set @iDate=dateadd(mm,1,@iDate)

    if (select count(*) from @Transactions where TransactionDate=@iDate) < 1
    begin

        select @PrevLvl = TransactionValue from @Transactions where TransactionDate=dateadd(mm,-1,@iDate)

        insert into @Transactions (TransactionDate, TransactionValue)
        select @iDate, @prevLvl

    end


    set @i=@i+1
end

select *
from @Transactions
order by TransactionDate