Add business days to a date using a Calendar table

  • Hi,

    I have a date that I need to add 'n' number of business days to. I have a calendar table that has a 'IsBusinessDay' flag, so it would be good if I was able to use this to get what I need. I've tried to use the 'LEAD' function in the following way;

    SELECT A. Date, B.DatePlus3BusinessDays

    FROM TableA A

    LEFT JOIN (Select DateKey, LEAD(DateKey,3) OVER (ORDER BY datekey) AS DatePlus3BusinessDays FROM Calendar WHERE IsBusinessDay = 1) B ON A.DateKey = B.DateKey

    Problem with this is that because I am filtering the Calendar for business days only, when there is a date that is not a business day in TableA, a NULL is being returned.

    Is there any way to do a conditional LEAD, so it skips rows that are not business days? Or do I have do go with a completely different approach?

    Any help is appreciated!

  • Try PARTITION

    SELECT A. Date, B.DatePlus3BusinessDays

    FROM TableA A

    LEFT JOIN (Select DateKey, LEAD(DateKey,3) OVER (PARTITION BY IsBusinessDay ORDER BY datekey) AS DatePlus3BusinessDays FROM Calendar WHERE IsBusinessDay = 1) B ON A.DateKey = B.DateKey

  • SELECT A. Date, MIN(B.DatePlus3BusinessDays) DatePlus3BusinessDays

    FROM TableA A

    LEFT JOIN (Select DateKey, LEAD(DateKey,3) OVER (PARTITION BY IsBusinessDay ORDER BY datekey) AS DatePlus3BusinessDays FROM Calendar WHERE IsBusinessDay = 1) B ON A.DateKey <= B.DateKey

    GROUP BY a.Date

  • That didn't work I'm afraid. The data is still being restricted by IsBusinessDay, hence removing the non business days.

    I've taken that where clause out and it still doesn't work 🙁

  • You can try something like this... (Note... I built this using our Calendar table which uses isWeekdat & isHoliday to determine working days).

    IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#temp') IS NOT NULL

    DROP TABLE #temp

    GO

    CREATE TABLE #temp (

    TestDate DATE

    )

    INSERT #temp (TestDate) VALUES

    ('2015-05-01'),('2015-05-02'),('2015-05-03'),('2015-05-04'),

    ('2015-05-11'),('2015-05-12'),('2015-05-13'),('2015-05-14'),

    ('2015-05-21'),('2015-05-22'),('2015-05-23'),('2015-05-24')

    SELECT

    t.TestDate,

    c2.dt AS EndDate

    FROM

    #temp t

    CROSS APPLY (

    SELECT TOP 3

    c.dt,

    ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY c.dt) AS rn

    FROM

    dbo.Calendar c

    WHERE 1 = 1

    AND t.TestDate < c.dt

    AND c.isWeekday = 1

    AND c.isHoliday = 0

    ORDER BY

    c.dt

    ) c2

    WHERE 1 = 1

    AND c2.rn = 3

    I don't love the use of the triangular join but a cleaner solution isn't popping into my head at the moment.

    Hopefully someone will post something a little cleaner. If not, this should at least get the desired results.

  • SELECT A.Date,

    ( --get the last of the business dates from below

    SELECT TOP (1) DateKey

    FROM (

    --get next three business dates past outer query's date

    SELECT TOP (3) c.DateKey

    FROM Calendar c

    WHERE c.DateKey > A.DateKey

    AND c.IsBusinessDay = 1

    ORDER BY c.DateKey

    ) AS derived

    ORDER BY DateKey DESC

    ) AS DatePlus3BusinessDays

    FROM TableA A

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Thanks for the help guys. Scott, your suggestion seems to work! Thanks 🙂

  • Had a slightly different requirement come in!

    Need to get the previous business day of a date if that date is not a business day... again I would like to use the Calendar table..

  • mm7861 (5/13/2015)


    Had a slightly different requirement come in!

    Need to get the previous business day of a date if that date is not a business day... again I would like to use the Calendar table..

    SELECT A.Date,

    ( --get the previous business date before the outer query's date

    SELECT TOP (1) c.DateKey

    FROM Calendar c

    WHERE c.DateKey < A.DateKey

    AND c.IsBusinessDay = 1

    ORDER BY c.DateKey DESC

    ) AS DateMinus1BusinessDay

    FROM TableA A

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Wow, so simple! Thanks 🙂

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