Get All the Friday Dates in Current Year

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Get All the Friday Dates in Current Year

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November 18, 2010 at 2:03 am

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I want to write a query that can return me list of all the Friday dates in current year. Please help.

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Dave Ballantyne SSC-Dedicated Points: 33667 More actions · Answer 1

Try a calendar table

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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 2

SELECT Fridays = DATEADD(yy, DATEDIFF(yy, 0, GETDATE()), n.num)

FROM (SELECT TOP 366 num = ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY a.NAME)-1 FROM dbo.syscolumns a, dbo.syscolumns b) n

WHERE DATENAME(weekday, DATEADD(yy, DATEDIFF(yy, 0, GETDATE()), n.num)) = 'Friday'

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