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

Elegant solution using new recursive (Common Table Expressions) functionality in MariaDB >= 10.3 and MySQL >= 8.0.

WITH RECURSIVE t as (
    select '2019-01-01' as dt
  UNION
    SELECT DATE_ADD(t.dt, INTERVAL 1 DAY) FROM t WHERE DATE_ADD(t.dt, INTERVAL 1 DAY) <= '2019-04-30'
)
select * FROM t;

The above returns a table of dates between '2019-01-01' and '2019-04-30'. It is also decently fast. Returning 1000 years worth of dates (~365,000 days) takes about 400ms on my machine.

Answer 2

SQLite version of RedFilters top solution

select d.Date
from (
    select 
    date(julianday('2010-01-20') + (a.a + (10 * b.a) + (100 * c.a))) as Date
    from (select 0 as a union all select 1 union all select 2 union all select 3 union all select 4 union all select 5 union all select 6 union all select 7 union all select 8 union all select 9) as a
    cross join (select 0 as a union all select 1 union all select 2 union all select 3 union all select 4 union all select 5 union all select 6 union all select 7 union all select 8 union all select 9) as b
    cross join (select 0 as a union all select 1 union all select 2 union all select 3 union all select 4 union all select 5 union all select 6 union all select 7 union all select 8 union all select 9) as c
) d
where 
d.Date between '2010-01-20' and '2010-01-24' 
order by d.Date

Answer 3

Here is another variation using views:

CREATE VIEW digits AS
  SELECT 0 AS digit UNION ALL
  SELECT 1 UNION ALL
  SELECT 2 UNION ALL
  SELECT 3 UNION ALL
  SELECT 4 UNION ALL
  SELECT 5 UNION ALL
  SELECT 6 UNION ALL
  SELECT 7 UNION ALL
  SELECT 8 UNION ALL
  SELECT 9;

CREATE VIEW numbers AS
  SELECT
    ones.digit + tens.digit * 10 + hundreds.digit * 100 + thousands.digit * 1000 AS number
  FROM
    digits as ones,
    digits as tens,
    digits as hundreds,
    digits as thousands;

CREATE VIEW dates AS
  SELECT
    SUBDATE(CURRENT_DATE(), number) AS date
  FROM
    numbers;

And then you can simply do (see how elegant it is?):

SELECT
  date
FROM
  dates
WHERE
  date BETWEEN '2010-01-20' AND '2010-01-24'
ORDER BY
  date

Update

It is worth noting that you will only be able to generate past dates starting from the current date. If you want to generate any kind of dates range (past, future, and in between), you will have to use this view instead:

CREATE VIEW dates AS
  SELECT
    SUBDATE(CURRENT_DATE(), number) AS date
  FROM
    numbers
  UNION ALL
  SELECT
    ADDDATE(CURRENT_DATE(), number + 1) AS date
  FROM
    numbers;

Answer 4

Alright.. Try this: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/Delving-Deeper-into-MySQL-50/
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/loop-statement.html
http://www.roseindia.net/sql/mysql-example/mysql-loop.shtml

Use that to, say, generate a temp table, and then do a select * on the temp table. Or output the results one at a time.
What you say you want to do can't be done with a SELECT statement, but it might be doable with things specific to MySQL.
Then again, maybe you need cursors: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/cursors.html

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

improved with weekday an joining a custom holiday table microsoft MSSQL 2012 for powerpivot date table https://gist.github.com/josy1024/cb1487d66d9e0ccbd420bc4a23b6e90e

with [dates] as (
    select convert(datetime, '2016-01-01') as [date] --start
    union all
    select dateadd(day, 1, [date])
    from [dates]
    where [date] < '2018-01-01' --end
)
select [date]
, DATEPART (dw,[date]) as Wochentag
, (select holidayname from holidaytable 
where holidaytable.hdate = [date]) 
as Feiertag
from [dates]
where [date] between '2016-01-01' and '2016-31-12'
option (maxrecursion 0)