How do I exclude Weekend days in a SQL Server query?

Question

How do I exclude values in a DateTime column that are Saturdays or Sundays?

For example, given the following data:

date_created
'2009-11-26 09:00:00'  -- Thursday
'2009-11-27 09:00:00'  -- Friday
'2009-11-28 09:00:00'  -- Saturday
'2009-11-29 09:00:00'  -- Sunday
'2009-11-30 09:00:00'  -- Monday

this is the result I'm looking for:

date_created
'2009-11-26 09:00:00'  -- Thursday
'2009-11-27 09:00:00'  -- Friday
'2009-11-30 09:00:00'  -- Monday

Thanks!

Solution 1

When dealing with day-of-week calculations, it's important to take account of the current DATEFIRST settings. This query will always correctly exclude weekend days, using @@DATEFIRST to account for any possible setting for the first day of the week.

SELECT *
FROM your_table
WHERE ((DATEPART(dw, date_created) + @@DATEFIRST) % 7) NOT IN (0, 1)

Solution 2

SELECT date_created
FROM your_table
WHERE DATENAME(dw, date_created) NOT IN ('Saturday', 'Sunday')

Solution 3

Assuming you're using SQL Server, use DATEPART with dw:

SELECT date_created
FROM your_table
WHERE DATEPART(dw, date_created) NOT IN (1, 7);

EDIT: I should point out that the actual numeric value returned by DATEPART(dw) is determined by the value set by using SET DATEFIRST:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181598.aspx

Solution 4

Try the DATENAME() function:

select [date_created]
from table
where DATENAME(WEEKDAY, [date_created]) <> 'Saturday'
  and DATENAME(WEEKDAY, [date_created]) <> 'Sunday'

Solution 5

The answer depends on your server's week-start set up, so it's either

SELECT [date_created] FROM table WHERE DATEPART(w,[date_created]) NOT IN (7,1)

if Sunday is the first day of the week for your server

or

SELECT [date_created] FROM table WHERE DATEPART(w,[date_created]) NOT IN (6,7)

if Monday is the first day of the week for your server

Comment if you've got any questions :-)

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Comments

[LukeH]

It's possible to automatically handle any possible settings of DATEFIRST. See my answer for details.

[LukeH]

It's possible to automatically handle any possible settings of DATEFIRST. See my answer for details.

[HuBeZa]

This might be problematic though. Run this script: set language italian; select DATENAME(WEEKDAY, '2015-01-01'); The result is giovedì.

[glagarto]

Good point HuBeZa, for translating the day into another language I would run the following SELECT * FROM sys.syslanguages and look for the language you wish to translate to