Loop Through Dates in T-SQL … One Day at a Time!

 

T-SQL Code to Loop One Day at a Time

Jamey Johnston (@STATCowboy)

 

Hidden in my SQL Server 2016 Security Demo blog post is a neat T-SQL trick to loop through a date range day by day (check out the “2 – Oil&Gas RLS Demo – LoadTables.sql” script when you download the code)! But to give you a simpler example the gist of the code in the script is this:

 

DECLARE @StartDate DATE = ‘2016-10-01’;
DECLARE @EndDate DATE = ‘2016-10-31’;

WHILE (@StartDate <= @EndDate)

BEGIN

print @StartDate;

— Do Something like call a proc with the variable @StartDate

set @StartDate = DATEADD(day, 1, @StartDate);

END;

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As you can see this is simple code and works like a charm! Hope you enjoy and hit me up on Twitter (@STATCowboy) if you have questions or improvements to the T-SQL Code!