I am trying to find a way of getting the number of "working" days (M-F) between two dates. I don't think I can do this with DateDiff. Is there any other function of method of doing this? Can you write your own functions in SQLServer? I would appreciate any advice.
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You can get the result from date diff also. You just find no. of days between the two dates. Find the day of two dates. Calcualate no. of weeks and multiply it by 2. Then subtract it from no. of days. <br><br>Does this satisfy you ?<br>Thanx<br>Siddhartha Singh<br><A HREF="mailto:ssingh@aztecsoft.com">ssingh@aztecsoft.com</A>
You can get the result from date diff also. You just find no. of days between the two dates. Find the day of two dates. Calcualate no. of weeks and multiply it by 2. Then subtract it from no. of days. <br><br>Does this satisfy you ?<br>Thanx<br>Siddhartha Singh<br><A HREF="mailto:ssingh@aztecsoft.com">ssingh@aztecsoft.com</A>
If you wanted to exclude public holidays as well then you might have problems. I answered a similar question in this forum last week that gave a solution by creating a date lookup table.<br><br>However, if you want rough M-F do as Siddharta says, a function is far easier to manage. Although you should be careful if the start and end day fall on a Saturday or Sunday as you may be out by one day.
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