Calendar table for Data Warehouse
data-warehouse, sql-server
Solution
- Quarter
- Year
- Financial/Accounting Year
- Financial/Accounting Quarter
- isWeekend
- isWeekday
- isWorkDay
- WeekId (weeks since start of year)
- isLastDayofMonth
- DaysSince (e.g. days since 1/1/2000)
Problem
For my data warehouse, I am creating a calendar table as follows: ``` SET NOCOUNT ON DROP Table dbo.Calendar GO Create Table dbo.Calendar ( CalendarId Integer NOT NULL, DateValue Date NOT NULL, DayNumberOfWeek Integer NOT NULL, NameOfDay VarChar (10) NOT NULL, NameOfMonth VarChar (10) NOT NULL, WeekOfYear Integer NOT NULL, JulianDay Integer NOT NULL, USAIsBankHoliday Bit NOT NULL, USADayName VarChar (100) NULL, ) ALTER TABLE dbo.Calendar ADD CONSTRAINT DF_Calendar_USAIsBankHoliday DEFAULT 0 FOR USAIsBankHoliday GO ALTER TABLE dbo.Calendar ADD CONSTRAINT DF_Calendar_USADayName DEFAULT '' FOR USADayName GO Declare @StartDate DateTime = '01/01/2000' Declare @EndDate DateTime = '01/01/2020' While @StartDate < @EndDate Begin INSERT INTO dbo.Calendar ( CalendarId, DateValue, WeekOfYear, DayNumberOfWeek, NameOfDay, NameOfMonth, JulianDay ) Values ( YEAR (@StartDate) * 10000 + MONTH (@StartDate) * 100 + Day (@StartDate), --CalendarId @StartDate, -- DateValue DATEPART (ww, @StartDate), -- WeekOfYear DATEPART (dw, @StartDate), -- DayNumberOfWeek DATENAME (dw, @StartDate), -- NameOfDay DATENAME (M, @StartDate), -- NameOfMonth DATEPART (dy, @StartDate) -- JulianDay ) Set @StartDate += 1 End --=========================== Weekends -- saturday and sunday UPDATE dbo.Calendar SET USAIsBankHoliday = 1, USADayName += 'Weekend, ' WHERE DayNumberOfWeek IN (1, 7) --=========================== Bank Holidays -- new years day UPDATE dbo.Calendar SET USAIsBankHoliday = 1, USADayName += 'New Year''s Day, ' WHERE (CalendarId % 2000) IN (101) -- memorial day (last Monday in May) UPDATE dbo.Calendar SET USAIsBankHoliday = 1, USADayName += 'Memorial Day, ' WHERE 1=1 AND CalendarId IN ( SELECT MAX (CalendarId) FROM dbo.Calendar WHERE MONTH (DateValue) = 5 AND DATEPART (DW, DateValue)=2 GROUP BY YEAR (datevalue) ) -- independence day UPDATE dbo.Calendar SET USAIsBankHoliday = 1, USADayName += 'Independence Day, ' WHERE (CalendarId % 2000) IN (704) -- labor day (first Monday in September) UPDATE dbo.Calendar SET USAIsBankHoliday = 1, USADayName += 'Labor Day, ' WHERE 1=1 AND CalendarId IN ( SELECT MIN (CalendarId) FROM dbo.Calendar WHERE MONTH (DateValue) = 9 AND DATEPART (DW, DateValue)=2 GROUP BY YEAR (datevalue) ) -- thanksgiving day (fourth Thursday in November) UPDATE dbo.Calendar SET USAIsBankHoliday = 1, USADayName += 'Thanksgiving Day, ' WHERE 1=1 AND CalendarId IN ( SELECT Max (CalendarId)-2 FROM dbo.Calendar WHERE MONTH (DateValue) = 11 AND DATEPART (DW, DateValue)=7 GROUP BY YEAR (datevalue) ) -- christmas UPDATE dbo.Calendar SET USAIsBankHoliday = 1, USADayName += 'Christmas Day, ' WHERE (CalendarId % 2000) IN (1225) --=========================== Other named days -- new years eve UPDATE dbo.Calendar SET USADayName += 'New Year''s Eve, ' WHERE (CalendarId % 2000) IN (1231) -- black friday (day after thanksgiving day) UPDATE dbo.Calendar SET USADayName += 'Black Friday, ' WHERE CalendarId IN (SELECT CalendarId+1 From dbo.Calendar Where USADayName like '%Thanksgiving%') -- christmas eve UPDATE dbo.Calendar SET USADayName += 'Christmas Eve, ' WHERE (CalendarId % 2000) IN (1224) -- boxing day UPDATE dbo.Calendar SET USADayName += 'Boxing Day, ' WHERE (CalendarId % 2000) IN (1226) --=========================== Remove trailing comma UPDATE dbo.Calendar SET USADayName = SubString (USADayName, 1, LEN (USADayName) -1) WHERE LEN (USADayName) > 2 SELECT * FROM dbo.Calendar ``` Here is the output of this command I have seen similar structures implemented in various flavours by data architects. My question is: What other data warehousing / dimension style useful information can I add to this table structure?