How to find the Nearest (day of the week) for a given date

Question

I been practicing queries, and my current scenario is to find the nearest Saturday for a given date. After i got the logic down, i came up with a, whats looks like a long and me

Answer 1

Try this:

select dateAdd(dd,7-DATEPART(dw,getDate()),GETDATE())

datePart(dw,...) returns day of the week for current date.

7 - that number, returns number of days until Saturday

Add the result to the date to get the next Saturday...

Similar logic if you need to go back to previous Saturday

Sql Fiddle: http://www.sqlfiddle.com/#!3/61998/2