Comments on: Calculate next (this) friday date with pl/sql – hide out!

By: ribx

ribx — Wed, 19 May 2010 07:41:37 +0000

there is a small mistake, because saturdays are considered same week. solution is to add 1 day to the date you wanna check:

SELECT
DATE(
DATE_ADD(
‘2010-05-19′ + INTERVAL 1 DAY,
INTERVAL 6 – DAYOFWEEK(‘2010-05-19′ + INTERVAL 1 DAY) DAY
)
)

ribx — Wed, 19 May 2010 07:30:26 +0000

SELECT DATE(DATE_ADD(‘2010-05-21′, INTERVAL 6 – DAYOFWEEK(‘2010-05-21′) DAY))

cas — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:46:18 +0000

I’m looking for code to determine the “2nd Friday of the month” and I found this:

select next_day(sysdate,’FRIDAY’) as NEXT_DAY from dual

however, this prints the next Friday, not the 2nd Friday.

Thought I’d share.