get date of all saturdays in a given year - sql server

Question

I need to get a list of all Saturday dates in a given year.

I\'ve seen an oracle post that goes against a table that had \"fiscal calendar table\" but I haven\'t bee

Answer 1

for the year 2010 you can do this

declare @d datetime
select @d = '20100101'  --'20090101'  if you want 2009 etc etc

select dateadd(dd,number,@d) from master..spt_values
where type = 'p'
and year(dateadd(dd,number,@d))=year(@d)
and DATEPART(dw,dateadd(dd,number,@d)) = 7

Answer 2

declare @d datetime select @d = '20100101' --'20090101' if you want 2009 etc etc

select dateadd(dd,number,@d) from master..spt_values where type = 'p' and datename(weekday, (dateadd(dd, number, @d))) in ('Saturday', 'Tuesday' /* Specify Day Name */)