Calculating the next beginning of month and the current end of month

2013-05-01 167 words One minute

Handling dates is always a fun challenge in T-SQL! Finding the current end of month and next months beginning of month is straight forward, but I like to find new ways to do things that take less coding, and hate date conversions that require a lot of manipulation of characters and concatenation. This was what I came up with for avoiding character conversions and concatenation for finding the current BOM (beginning of month) and EOM (end of month) values. Adjust according to your needs. Cheers!

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    --use datediff from 0, ie default 1900 date, to calculate current months as int
    declare @ThisMonth int = datediff(month,0,cast(getdate() as date))

    --add 1 to the current month to get the next month
    declare @NextBom date = dateadd(month,@ThisMonth+1,0)

    -- subtract a day from the beginning of next month to get the current end of month, without worrying about 28, 30, or 31 days.
    declare @ThisEom date = dateadd(day,-1,@NextBom)
    select @ThisMonth select @NextBom select @ThisEom

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