Question

I use DATEDIFF function to filter records added this week only:

DATEDIFF(week, DateCreated, GETDATE()) = 0

and I noticed what it’s assumed what week starts on Sunday. But in my case I would prefer to set start of week on Monday. Is it possible somehow in T-SQL?

Thanks!

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Update:

Below is an example showing what DATEDIFF doesn’t check @@DATEFIRST variable so I need another solution.

SET DATEFIRST 1;

SELECT 
    DateCreated, 
    DATEDIFF(week, DateCreated, CAST('20090725' AS DATETIME)) AS D25, 
    DATEDIFF(week, DateCreated, CAST('20090726' AS DATETIME)) AS D26
FROM
(
    SELECT CAST('20090724' AS DATETIME) AS DateCreated
    UNION 
    SELECT CAST('20090725' AS DATETIME) AS DateCreated
) AS T

Output:

DateCreated             D25         D26
----------------------- ----------- -----------
2009-07-24 00:00:00.000 0           1
2009-07-25 00:00:00.000 0           1

(2 row(s) affected)

26 Jul 2009 is Sunday, and I want DATEDIFF returns 0 in third column too.

Answer 1

Yes it possible

SET DATEFIRST 1; -- Monday

from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181598.aspx

It appears datediff doesn’t respect the Datefirst, so make it do so run it like this

create table #testDates (id int identity(1,1), dateAdded datetime)
insert into #testDates values ('2009-07-09 15:41:39.510') -- thu
insert into #testDates values ('2009-07-06 15:41:39.510') -- mon
insert into #testDates values ('2009-07-05 15:41:39.510') -- sun
insert into #testDates values ('2009-07-04 15:41:39.510') -- sat

SET DATEFIRST 7 -- Sunday (Default
select * from #testdates where datediff(ww, DATEADD(dd,-@@datefirst,dateadded), DATEADD(dd,-@@datefirst,getdate())) = 0
SET DATEFIRST 1 -- Monday
select * from #testdates where datediff(ww, DATEADD(dd,-@@datefirst,dateadded), DATEADD(dd,-@@datefirst,getdate())) = 0

Stolen from

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/transactsql/thread/8cc3493a-7ae5-4759-ab2a-e7683165320b