I\'m trying to get the most recent Friday in SQL Server 2008.
I have this. It gets the beginning of the week (monday) then subtracts 3 days to get Friday.
Here is a completly set oriented way to achive the last Friday:
select Friday from
(
select max(GetDate()) as Friday where datepart(dw, getdate()) = 6
union all
select max((GetDate() - 1)) where datepart(dw, (getdate() - 1)) = 6
union all
select max((GetDate() - 2)) where datepart(dw, (getdate() - 2)) = 6
union all
select max((GetDate() - 3)) where datepart(dw, (getdate() - 3)) = 6
union all
select max((GetDate() - 4)) where datepart(dw, (getdate() - 4)) = 6
union all
select max((GetDate() - 5)) where datepart(dw, (getdate() - 5)) = 6
) x where Friday is not null