I need help writing a T-SQL query that will generate 52 rows of data per franchise from a table that will often contain gaps in the 52 week sequence per franchise (i.e., the franchise may have reported data bi-weekly or has not been in business for a full year).
The table I'm querying against looks something like this:
FranchiseId | Date | ContractHours | PrivateHours
and I need to join it to a table similar to this:
FranchiseId | Name
The output of the query needs to look like this:
Name | Date | ContractHours | PrivateHours
---- ---------- ------------- ------------
AZ1 08-02-2011 292 897
AZ1 07-26-2011 0 0 -- default to 0's for gaps in sequence
...
AZ1 08-03-2010 45 125 -- row 52 for AZ1
AZ2 08-02-2011 382 239
...
AZ2 07-26-2011 0 0 -- row 52 for AZ2
I need this style of output for every franchise, i.e., 52 rows of data with default rows for any gaps in the 52 week sequence, in a single result set. Thus, if there are 100 franchises, the result set should be 5200 rows.
What I've Tried
I've tried the typical suggestions of:
- Create a table with all possible dates
- LEFT OUTER JOIN this to the table of data needed
The problems I'm running into are
- ensuring that for every franchise their are 52 rows and
filling in gaps with the franchise name and 0 for hours, I can't have the following in the result set:
Name | Date | ContractHours | PrivateHours ---- ---------- ------------- ------------ NULL 08-02-2011 NULL NULL
I don't know where to go from here? Is there an efficient way to write a T-SQL query that will produce the required output?