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

A more generic answer that works in AWS MySQL.

select datetable.Date
from (
    select date_format(affffdate(now(),-(a.a + (10 * b.a) + (100 * c.a))),'%Y-%m-%d') 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
) datetable
where datetable.Date between now() - INTERVAL 14 Day and Now()
order by datetable.Date DESC

Answer 2

Generate dates between two date fields

If you are aware with SQL CTE query, then this solution will helps you to solve your question

Here is example

We have dates in one table

Table Name: “testdate”

STARTDATE   ENDDATE
10/24/2012  10/24/2012
10/27/2012  10/29/2012
10/30/2012  10/30/2012

Require Result:

STARTDATE
10/24/2012
10/27/2012
10/28/2012
10/29/2012
10/30/2012

Solution:

WITH CTE AS
  (SELECT DISTINCT convert(varchar(10),StartTime, 101) AS StartTime,
                   datediff(dd,StartTime, endTime) AS diff
   FROM dbo.testdate
   UNION ALL SELECT StartTime,
                    diff - 1 AS diff
   FROM CTE
   WHERE diff<> 0)
SELECT DISTINCT DateAdd(dd,diff, StartTime) AS StartTime
FROM CTE

Explanation: CTE Recursive query explanation

• First part of query:
  
  SELECT DISTINCT convert(varchar(10), StartTime, 101) AS StartTime, datediff(dd, StartTime, endTime) AS diff FROM dbo.testdate
  
  Explanation: firstcolumn is “startdate”, second column is difference of start and end date in days and it will be consider as “diff” column

• Second part of query:
  
  UNION ALL SELECT StartTime, diff-1 AS diff FROM CTE WHERE diff<>0
  
  Explanation: Union all will inherit result of above query until result goes null, So “StartTime” result is inherit from generated CTE query, and from diff, decrease - 1, so its looks like 3, 2, and 1 until 0

For example

STARTDATE   DIFF
10/24/2012  0
10/27/2012  0
10/27/2012  1
10/27/2012  2
10/30/2012  0

Result Specification

STARTDATE       Specification
10/24/2012  --> From Record 1
10/27/2012  --> From Record 2
10/27/2012  --> From Record 2
10/27/2012  --> From Record 2
10/30/2012  --> From Record 3

• 3rd Part of Query
  
  

  SELECT DISTINCT DateAdd(dd,diff, StartTime) AS StartTime FROM CTE
  
  It will add day “diff” in “startdate” so result should be as below

Result

STARTDATE
10/24/2012
10/27/2012
10/28/2012
10/29/2012
10/30/2012

Answer 3

You'd like to get the a date range.

In your example you'd like to get the dates between '2010-01-20' and '2010-01-24'

possible solution:

 select date_add('2010-01-20', interval row day) from
 ( 
    SELECT @row := @row + 1 as row FROM 
    (select 0 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 6 union all select 7 union all select 8 union all select 9) t,
    (select 0 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 6 union all select 7 union all select 8 union all select 9) t2, 
    (select 0 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 6 union all select 7 union all select 8 union all select 9) t3, 
    (select 0 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 6 union all select 7 union all select 8 union all select 9) t4, 
    (SELECT @row:=-1) r
 ) sequence
 where date_add('2010-01-20', interval row day) <= '2010-01-24'

Explanation

MySQL has a date_add function so

select date_add('2010-01-20', interval 1 day)

will give you

2010-01-21

The datediff function would let you know often you'd have to repeat this

select datediff('2010-01-24', '2010-01-20')

which returns

 4

Getting a list of dates in a date range boils down to creating a sequence of integer numbers see generate an integer sequence in MySQL

The most upvoted answer here has taken a similar approach as https://stackoverflow.com/a/2652051/1497139 as a basis:

SELECT @row := @row + 1 as row FROM 
(select 0 union all select 1 union all select 3 union all select 4 union all select 5 union all select 6 union all select 6 union all select 7 union all select 8 union all select 9) t,
(select 0 union all select 1 union all select 3 union all select 4 union all select 5 union all select 6 union all select 6 union all select 7 union all select 8 union all select 9) t2, 
(select 0 union all select 1 union all select 3 union all select 4 union all select 5 union all select 6 union all select 6 union all select 7 union all select 8 union all select 9) t3, 
(select 0 union all select 1 union all select 3 union all select 4 union all select 5 union all select 6 union all select 6 union all select 7 union all select 8 union all select 9) t4, 
(SELECT @row:=0) r
limit 4

which will result in

row
1.0
2.0
3.0
4.0

The rows can now be used to create a list of dates from the given start date. To include the start date we start with row -1;

select date_add('2010-01-20', interval row day) from
 ( 
    SELECT @row := @row + 1 as row FROM 
    (select 0 union all select 1 union all select 3 union all select 4 union all select 5 union all select 6 union all select 6 union all select 7 union all select 8 union all select 9) t,
    (select 0 union all select 1 union all select 3 union all select 4 union all select 5 union all select 6 union all select 6 union all select 7 union all select 8 union all select 9) t2, 
    (select 0 union all select 1 union all select 3 union all select 4 union all select 5 union all select 6 union all select 6 union all select 7 union all select 8 union all select 9) t3, 
    (select 0 union all select 1 union all select 3 union all select 4 union all select 5 union all select 6 union all select 6 union all select 7 union all select 8 union all select 9) t4, 
    (SELECT @row:=-1) r
 ) sequence
 where date_add('2010-01-20', interval row day) <= '2010-01-24'

Answer 4

Procedure + temporary table:

DELIMITER $$

CREATE DEFINER=`root`@`localhost` PROCEDURE `days`(IN dateStart DATE, IN dateEnd DATE)
BEGIN

    CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE IF NOT EXISTS date_range (day DATE);

    WHILE dateStart <= dateEnd DO
      INSERT INTO date_range VALUES (dateStart);
      SET dateStart = DATE_ADD(dateStart, INTERVAL 1 DAY);
    END WHILE;

    SELECT * FROM date_range;
    DROP TEMPORARY TABLE IF EXISTS date_range;

END

Answer 5

The old school solution for doing this without a loop/cursor is to create a NUMBERS table, which has a single Integer column with values starting at 1.

CREATE TABLE  `example`.`numbers` (
  `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

You need to populate the table with enough records to cover your needs:

INSERT INTO NUMBERS (id) VALUES (NULL);

Once you have the NUMBERS table, you can use:

SELECT x.start_date + INTERVAL n.id-1 DAY
  FROM NUMBERS n
  JOIN (SELECT STR_TO_DATE('2010-01-20', '%Y-%m-%d') AS start_date 
          FROM DUAL) x
 WHERE x.start_date + INTERVAL n.id-1 DAY <= '2010-01-24'

The absolute low-tech solution would be:

SELECT STR_TO_DATE('2010-01-20', '%Y-%m-%d')
 FROM DUAL
UNION ALL
SELECT STR_TO_DATE('2010-01-21', '%Y-%m-%d')
 FROM DUAL
UNION ALL
SELECT STR_TO_DATE('2010-01-22', '%Y-%m-%d')
 FROM DUAL
UNION ALL
SELECT STR_TO_DATE('2010-01-23', '%Y-%m-%d')
 FROM DUAL
UNION ALL
SELECT STR_TO_DATE('2010-01-24', '%Y-%m-%d')
 FROM DUAL

What would you use it for?

---

To generate lists of dates or numbers in order to LEFT JOIN on to. You would to this in order to see where there are gaps in the data, because you are LEFT JOINing onto a list of sequencial data - null values will make it obvious where gaps exist.

Answer 6

thx Pentium10 - you made me join stackoverflow :) - this is my porting to msaccess - think it'll work on any version:

SELECT date_value
FROM (SELECT a.espr1+(10*b.espr1)+(100*c.espr1) AS integer_value,
dateadd("d",integer_value,dateserial([start_year], [start_month], [start_day])) as date_value
FROM (select * from 
    (
    select top 1 "0" as espr1 from MSysObjects
    union all
    select top 1 "1" as espr2 from MSysObjects
    union all
    select top 1 "2" as espr3 from MSysObjects
    union all
    select top 1 "3" as espr4 from MSysObjects
    union all
    select top 1 "4" as espr5 from MSysObjects
    union all
    select top 1 "5" as espr6 from MSysObjects
    union all
    select top 1 "6" as espr7 from MSysObjects
    union all
    select top 1 "7" as espr8 from MSysObjects
    union all
    select top 1 "8" as espr9 from MSysObjects
    union all
    select top 1 "9" as espr9 from MSysObjects
    ) as a,
    (
    select top 1 "0" as espr1 from MSysObjects
    union all
    select top 1 "1" as espr2 from MSysObjects
    union all
    select top 1 "2" as espr3 from MSysObjects
    union all
    select top 1 "3" as espr4 from MSysObjects
    union all
    select top 1 "4" as espr5 from MSysObjects
    union all
    select top 1 "5" as espr6 from MSysObjects
    union all
    select top 1 "6" as espr7 from MSysObjects
    union all
    select top 1 "7" as espr8 from MSysObjects
    union all
    select top 1 "8" as espr9 from MSysObjects
    union all
    select top 1 "9" as espr9 from MSysObjects
    ) as b,
    (
    select top 1 "0" as espr1 from MSysObjects
    union all
    select top 1 "1" as espr2 from MSysObjects
    union all
    select top 1 "2" as espr3 from MSysObjects
    union all
    select top 1 "3" as espr4 from MSysObjects
    union all
    select top 1 "4" as espr5 from MSysObjects
    union all
    select top 1 "5" as espr6 from MSysObjects
    union all
    select top 1 "6" as espr7 from MSysObjects
    union all
    select top 1 "7" as espr8 from MSysObjects
    union all
    select top 1 "8" as espr9 from MSysObjects
    union all
    select top 1 "9" as espr9 from MSysObjects
    ) as c   
)  as d) 
WHERE date_value 
between dateserial([start_year], [start_month], [start_day]) 
and dateserial([end_year], [end_month], [end_day]);

referenced MSysObjects just 'cause access need a table countin' at least 1 record, in a from clause - any table with at least 1 record would do.