Deterministic scalar function to get day of week f

Question

SQL Server, trying to get day of week via a deterministic UDF.

Im sure this must be possible, but cant figure it out.

UPDATE: SAMPLE CODE..

CREATE VIEW V_Stuff WITH SCHEMABINDING AS 
SELECT    
MD.ID, 
MD.[DateTime]
...
        dbo.FN_DayNumeric_DateTime(MD.DateTime) AS [Day], 
        dbo.FN_TimeNumeric_DateTime(MD.DateTime) AS [Time], 
...
FROM       {SOMEWHERE}
GO
CREATE UNIQUE CLUSTERED INDEX V_Stuff_Index ON V_Stuff (ID, [DateTime])
GO

Answer 1

I know this post is way-super-old, but I was trying to do a similar thing and came up with a different solution and figured I'd post for posterity. Plus I did some searching around and did not find much content on this question.

In my case, I was trying to use a computed column PERSISTED, which requires the calculation to be deterministic. The calculation I used is:

datediff(dd,'2010-01-03',[DateColumn]) % 7 + 1

The idea is to figure out a known Sunday that you know will occur before any possible date in your table (in this case, Jan 3 2010), then calculate the modulo 7 + 1 of the number of days since that Sunday.

The problem is that including a literal date in the function call is enough to mark it as non-deterministic. You can work around that by using the integer 0 to represent the epoch, which for SQL Server is Jan 1st, 1900, a Sunday.

datediff(dd,0,[DateColumn]) % 7 + 1

The +1 just makes the result work the same as datepart(dw,[datecolumn]) when datefirst is set to 7 (default for US), which sets Sunday to 1, Monday to 2, etc

I can also use this in conjunction with case [thatComputedColumn] when 1 then 'Sunday' when 2 then 'Monday' ... etc. Wordier, but deterministic, which was a requirement in my environs.

Answer 2

Not sure what you are looking for, but if this is part of a website, try this php function from http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

function weekday($fyear, $fmonth, $fday) //0 is monday
{
  return (((mktime ( 0, 0, 0, $fmonth, $fday, $fyear) - mktime ( 0, 0, 0, 7, 17,   2006))/(60*60*24))+700000) % 7;
}

Answer 3

Taken from Deterministic scalar function to get week of year for a date

;
with 
Dates(DateValue) as 
(
    select cast('2000-01-01' as date)
    union all 
    select dateadd(day, 1, DateValue) from Dates where DateValue < '2050-01-01'
)
select 
    year(DateValue) * 10000 + month(DateValue) * 100 + day(DateValue) as DateKey, DateValue,        
    datediff(day, dateadd(week, datediff(week, 0, DateValue), 0), DateValue) + 2 as DayOfWeek,
    datediff(week, dateadd(month, datediff(month, 0, DateValue), 0), DateValue) + 1 as WeekOfMonth,
    datediff(week, dateadd(year, datediff(year, 0, DateValue), 0), DateValue) + 1 as WeekOfYear
    from Dates option (maxrecursion 0)