How do I find the number of fridays between two dates(including both the dates) using a select statement in oracle sql?
This will do it:
select ((next_day(date2-7,'FRI')-next_day(date-1,'FRI'))/7)+1 as num_fridays
from data
Perhaps best if I break that down. The NEXT_DAY function returns the next day that is a (Friday in this case) after the date.
So to find the first Friday after d1 would be:
next_day( d1, 'FRI')
But if d1 is a Friday that would return the following Friday, so we adjust:
next_day( d1-1, 'FRI')
Similarly to find the last Friday up to and including d2 we do:
next_day( d1-7, 'FRI')
Subtracting the 2 gives a number of days: 0 if they are the same date, 7 if they a re a week apart and so on:
next_day( d1-7, 'FRI') - next_day( d1-1, 'FRI')
Convert to weeks:
(next_day( d1-7, 'FRI') - next_day( d1-1, 'FRI')) / 7
Finally, if they are the same date we get 0, but really there is 1 Friday, and so on so we add one:
((next_day( d1-7, 'FRI') - next_day( d1-1, 'FRI')) / 7) + 1
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