Today I needed a PL/SQL funtion to determine next friday’s date.
Therefore I had to write a strange PL/SQL function. I’m kind of mixed up - am I complicated?

I’m sure there’s a pretty simple Oracle solution out there - hide out!

Hopefully Steven Feuerstein never sees this lines of code. Maybe someon has a better idea than this ….

declare
  

 function NextFriday return date is
 vNextFriday date;
 vNext date;
 vFR date;
 vMO date;
 begin

 SELECT trunc(NEXT_DAY(SYSDATE, ‘FRIDAY’  ))
 into vNextFriday
 FROM dual;

 select trunc(sysdate)+7
 into vNext
 from dual;

 if vNextFriday = vNext
 then
 select trunc(sysdate)
 into vFR
 from dual;
 else
 select trunc(NEXT_DAY(SYSDATE, ‘FRIDAY’))
 into vFR
 from dual;
 end if;

 — Monday
 vMO := vFR-4;

 — Friday
 return vFR
 end NextFriday;

begin
 dbms_output.put_line(’Next Friday: ‘ ||NextFriday);
end;