generate days from date range

Question

I would like to run a query like

select ... as days where `date` is between \'2010-01-20\' and \'2010-01-24\'

And return data like:

Answer 1

For Access 2010 - multiple steps required; I followed the same pattern as posted above, but thought I could help someone in Access. Worked great for me, I didn't have to keep a seeded table of dates.

Create a table called DUAL (similar to how the Oracle DUAL table works)

• ID (AutoNumber)
• DummyColumn (Text)
• Add one row values (1,"DummyRow")

Create a query named "ZeroThru9Q"; manually enter the following syntax:

SELECT 0 AS a
FROM dual
UNION ALL
SELECT 1
FROM dual
UNION ALL
SELECT 2
FROM dual
UNION ALL
SELECT 3
FROM dual
UNION ALL
SELECT 4
FROM dual
UNION ALL
SELECT 5
FROM dual
UNION ALL
SELECT 6
FROM dual
UNION ALL
SELECT 7
FROM dual
UNION ALL
SELECT 8
FROM dual
UNION ALL
SELECT 9
FROM dual;

Create a query named "TodayMinus1KQ" (for dates before today); manually enter the following syntax:

SELECT date() - (a.a + (10 * b.a) + (100 * c.a)) AS MyDate
FROM
  (SELECT *
   FROM ZeroThru9Q) AS a,

  (SELECT *
   FROM ZeroThru9Q) AS b,

  (SELECT *
   FROM ZeroThru9Q) AS c

Create a query named "TodayPlus1KQ" (for dates after today); manually enter the following syntax:

SELECT date() + (a.a + (10 * b.a) + (100 * c.a)) AS MyDate
FROM
  (SELECT *
   FROM ZeroThru9Q) AS a,

  (SELECT *
   FROM ZeroThru9Q) AS b,

  (SELECT *
   FROM ZeroThru9Q) AS c;

Create a union query named "TodayPlusMinus1KQ" (for dates +/- 1000 days):

SELECT MyDate
FROM TodayMinus1KQ
UNION
SELECT MyDate
FROM TodayPlus1KQ;

Now you can use the query:

SELECT MyDate
FROM TodayPlusMinus1KQ
WHERE MyDate BETWEEN #05/01/2014# and #05/30/2014#