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Home 2018 March SQL Puzzle: SQL Advance Query – Count total number of Working Days between Two Dates

SQL Puzzle: SQL Advance Query – Count total number of Working Days between Two Dates

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Check the below input data and expected output for counting the total number of working days between given Two Dates.

Input Dates:

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SET @StartDate = '2018-01-01'
SET @EndDate = '2018-01-31'

Required Output:

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TotalWorkingDays
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23

Solution:

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DECLARE @StartDate DATETIME
DECLARE @EndDate DATETIME
SET @StartDate = '2018-01-01'
SET @EndDate = '2018-01-31'
 
SELECT
(DATEDIFF(dd, @StartDate, @EndDate) + 1)
-(DATEDIFF(wk, @StartDate, @EndDate) * 2)
-(CASE WHEN DATENAME(dw, @StartDate) = 'Sunday' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END)
-(CASE WHEN DATENAME(dw, @EndDate) = 'Saturday' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS TotalWorkingDays

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Mar 1, 2018Anvesh Patel
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Comments: 2
  1. VINUTNA
    May 22, 2018 at 11:21 am

    declare @startdate date = ‘2018-01-01’
    declare @EndDate date = ‘2018-01-31’
    declare @working_days int = 0
    while (@startdate <= '2018-01-31')
    begin
    select @working_days = case when DATENAME(weekday, @startdate) IN ('Saturday', 'Sunday') then @working_days
    else @working_days +1
    end
    select @startdate = dateadd(day,1,@startdate)
    end
    select @working_days

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  2. HIC
    May 3, 2019 at 10:29 am

    PL/SQL:
    with wd(wday) as (
    select to_date(‘01.01.2018’, ‘dd.mm.yyyy’) from dual
    union all
    select wday + 1 from wd where wday < to_date('31.01.2018', 'dd.mm.yyyy')
    )
    select count(wday)
    from wd
    where to_char(wday, 'd') not in (1, 7);

    ReplyCancel

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