I need a MySQL table to hold ALL DATES between 2011-01-01 and 2011-12-31. I have created a table with one column names \"_date\", type DATE.
With what query can I po
if you're in a situation like me where procedures are prohibited, and your sql user does not have permissions for insert, therefore insert not allowed, but you want to generate a list of dates in a specific period, say current year to do some aggregation, use this
select * from
(select affffdate('1970-01-01',t4*10000 + t3*1000 + t2*100 + t1*10 + t0) gen_date from
(select 0 t0 union select 1 union select 2 union select 3 union select 4 union select 5 union select 6 union select 7 union select 8 union select 9) t0,
(select 0 t1 union select 1 union select 2 union select 3 union select 4 union select 5 union select 6 union select 7 union select 8 union select 9) t1,
(select 0 t2 union select 1 union select 2 union select 3 union select 4 union select 5 union select 6 union select 7 union select 8 union select 9) t2,
(select 0 t3 union select 1 union select 2 union select 3 union select 4 union select 5 union select 6 union select 7 union select 8 union select 9) t3,
(select 0 t4 union select 1 union select 2 union select 3 union select 4 union select 5 union select 6 union select 7 union select 8 union select 9) t4) v
where gen_date between '2017-01-01' and '2017-12-31'
Try this:
DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS filldates;
DELIMITER |
CREATE PROCEDURE filldates(dateStart DATE, dateEnd DATE)
BEGIN
WHILE dateStart <= dateEnd DO
INSERT INTO tablename (_date) VALUES (dateStart);
SET dateStart = date_add(dateStart, INTERVAL 1 DAY);
END WHILE;
END;
|
DELIMITER ;
CALL filldates('2011-01-01','2011-12-31');
Here's the SQL Fiddle to play with it: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!2/65d13/1
EDIT (to check if date already exists) as asked by Andrew Fox.
CREATE PROCEDURE filldates(dateStart DATE, dateEnd DATE)
BEGIN
DECLARE adate date;
WHILE dateStart <= dateEnd DO
SET adate = (SELECT mydate FROM MyDates WHERE mydate = dateStart);
IF adate IS NULL THEN BEGIN
INSERT INTO MyDates (mydate) VALUES (dateStart);
END; END IF;
SET dateStart = date_add(dateStart, INTERVAL 1 DAY);
END WHILE;
END;//
Here's the SQL Fiddle to play with it: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!2/66f86/1
I found this paste-and-go variant working:
DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS FillCalendar;
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS calendar;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS calendar(calendar_date DATE NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY);
DELIMITER $$
CREATE PROCEDURE FillCalendar(start_date DATE, end_date DATE)
BEGIN
DECLARE crt_date DATE;
SET crt_date = start_date;
WHILE crt_date <= end_date DO
INSERT IGNORE INTO calendar VALUES(crt_date);
SET crt_date = ADDDATE(crt_date, INTERVAL 1 DAY);
END WHILE;
END$$
DELIMITER ;
CALL FillCalendar('2013-01-01', '2013-01-03');
CALL FillCalendar('2013-01-01', '2013-01-07');
Thanks to IvanD. I've got a better solution which allowes you to create a specified calendar table. For example, if I'm trying to create a table of 2014-04, it looks like this:
SELECT (CURDATE() - INTERVAL c.number DAY) AS DATE
FROM
(
SELECT singles + tens + hundreds number FROM
(
SELECT 0 singles
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
) singles JOIN
(
SELECT 0 tens
UNION ALL SELECT 10 UNION ALL SELECT 20 UNION ALL SELECT 30
UNION ALL SELECT 40 UNION ALL SELECT 50 UNION ALL SELECT 60
UNION ALL SELECT 70 UNION ALL SELECT 80 UNION ALL SELECT 90
) tens JOIN
(
SELECT 0 hundreds
UNION ALL SELECT 100 UNION ALL SELECT 200 UNION ALL SELECT 300
UNION ALL SELECT 400 UNION ALL SELECT 500 UNION ALL SELECT 600
UNION ALL SELECT 700 UNION ALL SELECT 800 UNION ALL SELECT 900
) hundreds
ORDER BY number DESC
) c
WHERE c.number BETWEEN
DAYOFYEAR(NOW()) - DAYOFYEAR('2014-04-01')- DAY(LAST_DAY('2014-04-01')) +1
AND
DAYOFYEAR(NOW()) - DAYOFYEAR('2014-04-01')
If you have a table with a large enough contiguous set of ids you could use -
INSERT INTO tablename (_date)
SELECT '2011-01-01' + INTERVAL (id - 1) DAY
FROM some_table_with_lots_of_ids
WHERE id BETWEEN 1 AND 365
note: but be aware that this might get you in trouble during leap-years (having 366 days)
I recently had a need to create a calendar_date
table as below:
CREATE TABLE `calendar_date` (
`date` DATE NOT NULL -- A calendar date.
, `day` SMALLINT NOT NULL -- The day of the year for the date, 1-366.
, `month` TINYINT NOT NULL -- The month number, 1-12.
, `year` SMALLINT NOT NULL -- The year.
, PRIMARY KEY (`id`));
I then populated it with all possible dates between January 1, 2001
and December 31, 2100
(both inclusive) using the query below:
INSERT INTO `calendar_date` (`date`
, `day`
, `month`
, `year`)
SELECT
DATE
, INCREMENT + 1
, MONTH(DATE)
, YEAR(DATE)
FROM
-- Generate all possible dates for every year from 2001 to 2100.
(SELECT
DATE_ADD(CONCAT(YEAR, '-01-01'), INTERVAL INCREMENT DAY) DATE
, INCREMENT
FROM
(SELECT
(UNITS + TENS + HUNDREDS) INCREMENT
FROM
(SELECT 0 UNITS UNION
SELECT 1 UNION SELECT 2 UNION SELECT 3 UNION
SELECT 4 UNION SELECT 5 UNION SELECT 6 UNION
SELECT 7 UNION SELECT 8 UNION SELECT 9) UNITS
CROSS JOIN
(SELECT 0 TENS UNION
SELECT 10 UNION SELECT 20 UNION SELECT 30 UNION
SELECT 40 UNION SELECT 50 UNION SELECT 60 UNION
SELECT 70 UNION SELECT 80 UNION SELECT 90) TENS
CROSS JOIN
(SELECT 0 HUNDREDS UNION
SELECT 100 UNION SELECT 200 UNION SELECT 300 UNION
SELECT 400 UNION SELECT 500 UNION SELECT 600 UNION
SELECT 700 UNION SELECT 800 UNION SELECT 900) HUNDREDS
) INCREMENT
-- For every year from 2001 to 2100, find the number of days in the year.
, (SELECT
YEAR
, DAYOFYEAR(CONCAT(YEAR, '-12-31')) - DAYOFYEAR(CONCAT(YEAR, '-01-01')) + 1 DAYS
FROM
-- Generate years from 2001 to 2100.
(SELECT
(2000 + UNITS + TENS) YEAR
FROM
(SELECT 0 UNITS UNION
SELECT 1 UNION SELECT 2 UNION SELECT 3 UNION
SELECT 4 UNION SELECT 5 UNION SELECT 6 UNION
SELECT 7 UNION SELECT 8 UNION SELECT 9) UNITS
CROSS JOIN
(SELECT 0 TENS UNION
SELECT 10 UNION SELECT 20 UNION SELECT 30 UNION
SELECT 40 UNION SELECT 50 UNION SELECT 60 UNION
SELECT 70 UNION SELECT 80 UNION SELECT 90) TENS
) YEAR
WHERE
YEAR BETWEEN 2001 AND 2100
) YEAR
WHERE
INCREMENT BETWEEN 0 AND DAYS - 1
ORDER BY
YEAR
, INCREMENT) DATE;
On my local MySQL database, the INSERT
query took just a few seconds. Hope this helps someone.