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

if you want the list of dates between two dates:

create table #dates ([date] smalldatetime)
while @since < @to
begin
     insert into #dates(dateadd(day,1,@since))
     set @since = dateadd(day,1,@since)
end
select [date] from #dates

*fiddle here: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!6/9eecb/3469