T-SQL: Get Next/Previous Business Day

In a previous role, we used a service from a company who provided data from the last working day of each month. The application to retrieve the data was an SSIS package which was scheduled via SQL Agent. Unfortunately, the SQL Agent scheduler doesn't (yet) have the abililty to provide custom schedules and there is no inbuilt function to "run on the last working day of the month".

Our solution to this was to implement a schedule table which held a RunDate and a TradeDate, include a task which checked to see if the current day was a valid day and then run the package daily. Nice and simple. The final step was to populate the schedule table with data for the next year and this is where I had to address the T-SQL challenge.

Fortunately, there are many solutions on the web for this sort of thing, but i'm going to post my objects here for reference.

NB: I like to keep all these type of generic functions in a Utils schema so that they can managed in a database project and deployed to a database as required.


CREATE FUNCTION Utils.IsWeekDay(@Dt DATE)
RETURNS BIT
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @IsWeekDay BIT = 1

IF DATENAME(DW,@Dt) IN ('SATURDAY', 'SUNDAY')
SET @IsWeekDay = 0

RETURN @IsWeekDay
END
GO

CREATE FUNCTION Utils.GetNextWeekDay(@Dt DATE)
RETURNS DATE
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @NxtDt DATE

SET @NxtDt = DATEADD(D,1,@Dt)

IF (SELECT Utils.IsWeekDay(@NxtDt)) != 1
BEGIN
SET @NxtDt = DATEADD(D,1,@NxtDt)

IF (SELECT Utils.IsWeekDay(@NxtDt)) != 1
SET @NxtDt = DATEADD(D,1,@NxtDt)
END

RETURN @NxtDt
END
GO

CREATE FUNCTION Utils.GetPreviousWeekDay(@Dt DATETIME)
RETURNS DATETIME
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @NxtDt DATE

SET @NxtDt = DATEADD(D,-1,@Dt)

IF (SELECT Utils.IsWeekDay(@NxtDt)) != 1
BEGIN
SET @NxtDt = DATEADD(D,-1,@NxtDt)

IF (SELECT Utils.IsWeekDay(@NxtDt)) != 1
SET @NxtDt = DATEADD(D,-1,@NxtDt)
END

RETURN @NxtDt
END
GO


-- and this is how we use the functions to get the schedule table for 2011

DECLARE @Year CHAR(8) = '20110101';

WITH Months
AS
(SELECT 0 AS Mth, CONVERT(DATETIME, @Year) AS Dt
UNION ALL
SELECT 1 + Mth, DATEADD(M, 1+Mth, @Year) AS Dt
FROM Months
WHERE Mth < 11
)
SELECT CASE Utils.IsWeekDay(Dt) WHEN 1 THEN Dt ELSE Utils.GetNextWeekDay(Dt) END AS RunDate,
Utils.GetPreviousWeekDay(Dt) AS TradeDate
FROM Months
GO