Question

I am looking for some SQL to determine if the current week is the week that contains the Nth Day of the month.

Example. I want to know if I am in the week that contains the third Friday that will occur this month. Or which week of the month contains the third Friday. Weeks should be defined as starting on a Sunday and ending on a Saturday. So a month that starts on a Saturday would not see it’s Friday until the 4th week, where as a month that starts Sunday – Friday, would see it’s 3rd Friday in the 3rd week of the month.

Not sure if PL/SQL is required for this or not.

Answer 1

You can simply generate the date ranges for the weeks that contain the Nth Day of each month, e.g. the 3rd Friday of each month, with a query like this:

select d - day_of_week AS sunday
      ,d + (7 - day_of_week) AS saturday
from   (select trunc(sysdate,'YY')+rownum-1 AS d
              ,to_number(to_char(trunc(sysdate,'YY')+rownum-1,'D'))
               AS day_of_week
        from dual connect by level <= 366)
where  to_char(d,'W') = 3
and    to_char(d,'DY') = 'FRI';

SUNDAY      SATURDAY
==========  ==========
14/01/2012  21/01/2012
11/02/2012  18/02/2012
10/03/2012  17/03/2012
14/04/2012  21/04/2012
12/05/2012  19/05/2012
09/06/2012  16/06/2012
14/07/2012  21/07/2012
11/08/2012  18/08/2012
15/09/2012  22/09/2012
13/10/2012  20/10/2012
10/11/2012  17/11/2012
15/12/2012  22/12/2012

EDIT:
You can create a simple function to check a single date, e.g.:

CREATE FUNCTION date_in_week_of_nth_day
   (in_date IN DATE
   ,in_week IN NUMBER
   ,in_day  IN VARCHAR2
   ) RETURN CHAR IS
  ret CHAR(1);
BEGIN
  select 'Y' into ret
  from   (select trunc(in_date,'MM')+rownum-1 AS d
                ,to_number(to_char(trunc(in_date,'MM')+rownum-1,'D'))
                 AS day_of_week
          from dual connect by level <= 31)
  where  to_char(d,'W') = in_week
  and    to_char(d,'DY') = in_day
  and    :in_date between (d - day_of_week) and (d + (7 - day_of_week));
  RETURN ret;
EXCEPTION
  WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND THEN
    RETURN 'N';
END;