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SQL SERVER – SQL SERVER – UDF – Get the Day of the Week Function – Part 3

Pinal Dave
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Datetime functions and stored procedures always interests me. Nanda Kumar has suggested modification to previous written article about SQL SERVER – SQL SERVER – UDF – Get the Day of the Week Function – Part 2. He has improved on UDF.

CREATE FUNCTION dbo.udf_DayOfWeek(@dtDate DATETIME)
RETURNS VARCHAR(10)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @rtDayofWeek VARCHAR(10)
DECLARE @weekDay INT
----Here I have subtracted 7 For keeping Sunday as the First day like wise for Monday we need to subtract 2 and so on
SET @weekDay=((DATEPART(dw,@dtDate)+@@DATEFIRST-7)%7)
SELECT @rtDayofWeek = CASE @weekDay
WHEN 1 THEN 'Sunday'
WHEN 2 THEN 'Monday'
WHEN 3 THEN 'Tuesday'
WHEN 4 THEN 'Wednesday'
WHEN 5 THEN 'Thursday'
WHEN 6 THEN 'Friday'
WHEN 0 THEN 'Saturday'
END
RETURN (@rtDayofWeek)
END
GO
SELECT dbo.udf_dayofweek(GETDATE())

Reference : Pinal Dave (https://blog.sqlauthority.com) , Nanda Kumar

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