Count work days between two dates

Question

How can I calculate the number of work days between two dates in SQL Server?

Monday to Friday and it must be T-SQL.

Answer 1

I took the various examples here, but in my particular situation we have a @PromisedDate for delivery and a @ReceivedDate for the actual receipt of the item. When an item was received before the "PromisedDate" the calculations were not totaling correctly unless I ordered the dates passed into the function by calendar order. Not wanting to check the dates every time, I changed the function to handle this for me.

Create FUNCTION [dbo].[fnGetBusinessDays]
(
 @PromiseDate date,
 @ReceivedDate date
)
RETURNS integer
AS
BEGIN
 DECLARE @days integer

 SELECT @days = 
    Case when @PromiseDate > @ReceivedDate Then
        DATEDIFF(d,@PromiseDate,@ReceivedDate) + 
        ABS(DATEDIFF(wk,@PromiseDate,@ReceivedDate)) * 2 +
        CASE 
            WHEN DATENAME(dw, @PromiseDate) <> 'Saturday' AND DATENAME(dw, @ReceivedDate) = 'Saturday' THEN 1 
            WHEN DATENAME(dw, @PromiseDate) = 'Saturday' AND DATENAME(dw, @ReceivedDate) <> 'Saturday' THEN -1 
            ELSE 0
        END +
        (Select COUNT(*) FROM CompanyHolidays 
            WHERE HolidayDate BETWEEN @ReceivedDate AND @PromiseDate 
            AND DATENAME(dw, HolidayDate) <> 'Saturday' AND DATENAME(dw, HolidayDate) <> 'Sunday')
    Else
        DATEDIFF(d,@PromiseDate,@ReceivedDate)  -
        ABS(DATEDIFF(wk,@PromiseDate,@ReceivedDate)) * 2  -
            CASE 
                WHEN DATENAME(dw, @PromiseDate) <> 'Saturday' AND DATENAME(dw, @ReceivedDate) = 'Saturday' THEN 1 
                WHEN DATENAME(dw, @PromiseDate) = 'Saturday' AND DATENAME(dw, @ReceivedDate) <> 'Saturday' THEN -1 
                ELSE 0
            END -
        (Select COUNT(*) FROM CompanyHolidays 
            WHERE HolidayDate BETWEEN @PromiseDate and @ReceivedDate 
            AND DATENAME(dw, HolidayDate) <> 'Saturday' AND DATENAME(dw, HolidayDate) <> 'Sunday')
    End


 RETURN (@days)

END