Question

I would like to build a query that will pull the number of rows that were created on a given date range and time frame. In other words. the date range would be for a given month, but I only want the rows that were created during a given time (say from 08:00 – 17:00) for each day throughout that month.

Is this easily possible?

I was thinking subqueries for each day, but didn’t know if there was an easier way.

Answer 1

This would give you what you want, I think. You could make a stored procedure or function out of it and pass in the start/end dates and start/end hour (now fixed). Note the strictly less than on the end date. You could also use less than or equal to ‘8/31/2009 11:59:59’.

select count(*),
       datepart(year,created) as [year],
       datepart(month,created) as [month],
       datepart(day,created) as [day]
from table
where created >= '8/1/2009'
      and created < '9/1/2009'
      and datepart(hour,created) >= 8
      and datepart(hour,created) <= 17
group by datepart(year,created), datepart(month,created), datepart(day,created)