Get the most recent Friday's date SQL

Question

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.

Answer 1

The other solutions were not working for my use case.

This works for finding any previous day by replacing 'Sunday' with the day you`re looking for:

    DECLARE @myDate DATE = GETDATE()

    WHILE DATENAME(WEEKDAY, @myDate) <> 'Sunday'
    BEGIN
        SET @myDate = DATEADD(DAY, -1, @myDate)
    END